If you're considering a web form that sends email, please think twice. Unless you do it right, you can open a gateway to spammers. I'm a sysadmin at a community college, and I've wound up blocking all outbound SMTP except to a few sites because students and instructors both write bad CGI+email apps which get used by spammers. Once that happens, your IP address gets added to spammer black-lists and routers start dropping your traffic until you beg the black-list people to take your name off. I'm not kidding.

Unless you're well versed in writing secure apps, please do not write a web form that sends email.

The documents at http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_Project#Release_Quality_Projects are good reading.

Good luck!

--Pileofrogs

In reply to Re: Questions about sending e-mails by pileofrogs
in thread Questions about sending e-mails by vit

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