The address that you send from does not impact the abuse concern I raised. Let's say the purpose of this page is to e-mail copies of a jpeg to people who want it. As an end-user, I would go to your page, enter my e-mail address, hit submit, and moments later the jpeg is in my inbox. Sounds great. Now what happens when Joe Hacker writes a bot (trivial) which inserts 1_000_000 different people's addresses into that field? You've just allowed your server to be the source of spam.

I have no problem with asking questions. Please do. I'm clearly still answering them. But it's generally considered good form once you've established a dialogue on one issue to keep that within one thread. So, for example you might have asked MIME::Lite returns "SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: Bad file descriptor" in response to weismat's comment on Questions about sending e-mails. It means fewer people need to get up to speed, and it maintains a clear line of thought. In general, monks will check threads they've been involved with for at least 24 hours and generally longer, and many including myself have notification set up so I know when people respond to my nodes. It also keeps monks from repeating each other - for example, in writing this up, I found out that pileofrogs gave you the same security warnings in Re: Questions about sending e-mails. A little reading which may be of interest for you on this topic may be Re: php to perl and Re: Iterative Subroutine Approach Question. And if you think that your question is sufficiently off the original topic, you should include a reference to your previous thread like 5miller did in 752162.

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