Sending email from a webpage?

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Sending email from a webpage?

Postby MaPoSquid » 22 Jun 2003, 23:41

I need to set up a web page that will send email to me without revealing my address to the sender. Can anyone point me at a site which does this as an example, or better yet point me toward a place to get the code for it? Preferably open-source, since I'll want to modify its appearance (then again, if it's a Perl CGI script, the only way to deliver those is as open source :) ).

Note that I know about the simple way to do it, but that way embeds the email address in the webpage, where spammers can access it. I need something that will work behind the scenes without placing my address in a visible location.
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Postby splam » 23 Jun 2003, 00:10

Just use a php page and embed the email address in the php code. It gets taken out before any spammer sees it.
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Postby cranky laowai » 23 Jun 2003, 00:14

There are ways to hide an e-mail address from spam-bots. One of my favorites is the encoder at Hiveware.
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Postby FEI » 23 Jun 2003, 05:19

cranky laowai, nice link, thanks for the info and very useful.
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Postby MaPoSquid » 23 Jun 2003, 07:43

[long explanation deleted]

Found a script that does it. In case anyone needs to do something similar, it is available as a service from:
http://www.formmail.com/

or as a downloadable CGI-BIN Perl script from:
http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html

To figure out how to set it up, I would recommend signing up for FormMail.com's "free trial" and looking at their examples. It's straightforward once you see them, and a little odd that the guy didn't include any of the form parameter information on the downloads site.
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Postby galley gong » 23 Jun 2003, 09:18

Might I suggest family counseling as an alternative.
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Postby MaPoSquid » 23 Jun 2003, 14:27

galley gong wrote:Might I suggest family counseling as an alternative.

Trust me, there's no way it would work. :(
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