What are your measures for securing scripts that send out e-mails so others cannot use it maliciously? I'm look for any and all ideas that you've had or used in the past that helped.

What I plan on doing is:

  • REFERER check (I know this isn't "perfect" but used with other sections, but any help is better than nothing)
  • IP time checker (Each time the script is launched it logs your IP and compares it to a database of times and IPs. If the IP executed the script within the past X minutes, the script will fail to execute.)
  • Message substitutions (Filter out anything after a space or comma in all the to/from/bcc fields to disallow multiple addresses)

    I know on a scale from 1-10 for security, this probably only hits a 4 or 5. What other methods can you think of?



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    sulfericacid

    In reply to Securing mailing scripts by sulfericacid

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