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| Introduction
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FormMail
is a generic WWW form to e-mail gateway, which will parse
the results of any form and send them to the specified user.
This CGI
has many formatting and operational options, most of which
can be specified through the form, meaning you don't need
any programming knowledge or multiple CGIs for multiple forms.
This also makes FormMail the perfect system-wide solution
for allowing users form-based user feedback capabilities without
the risks of allowing freedom of CGI access.
PGP
(Pretty Good Privacy), originally developed by Phil Zimmerman,
is a high security cryptographic software application for
MSDOS, UNIX, VAX/VMS, and other computers. PGP allows people
to exchange files or messages with privacy, authentication,
and convenience.
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| Installation
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Connect to your Virtual Private Servers via Telnet
or SSH and do the following.
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Install PGP
5.0.
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Install the PGP FormMail
software. Issue the commands that match your Virtual Private Servers
O/S.
These commands install two
files, pgp5formmail.pl and pgp5formmail.README.txt,
into your ~/www/cgi-bin directory.
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| Configuration
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Set the referer information such that only your server will
have privileges to use the PGP FormMail CGI. Near the top
of the pgp5formmail.pl
file you will find the following line:
@referers = ('YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME','YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS');
Substitute your domain name and
Virtual Private Servers IP address for the values YOUR-DOMAIN.NAME
and YOUR.IP.ADD.RESS
respectively.
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| Usage
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Create a form that you would like the contents mailed to some
address. The form should include the following fields (at
the very least):
- recipient = specifies who
mail is sent to
- pgpuserid = specifies your
PGP user ID
Other optional fields can also
be used to enhance the operation of PGP FormMail for you site,
for example:
- subject = specify the subject
included in e-mail sent back to you
- email = allow the user to
specify a return e-mail address
- realname = allow the user
to input their real name
- redirect = URL of page to
redirect to instead of echoing form input
- required = list of field names
that are required input (comma delimited)
Several other fields are supported,
please see the pgp5formmail.README
document for a complete presentation of the supported fields.
For example, the HTML source
for your form may look like this:
<form method="POST" action="/cgi-bin/pgp5formmail.pl">
<input type="hidden" name="recipient"
value="order@yourdomain.com">
<input type="hidden" name="pgpuserid"
value="YOUR-USER-ID">
<input type="hidden" name="subject"
value="Order Request">
<input type="hidden" name="required"
value="realname,username,phone">
Please Enter Your Name:<br>
<input name="realname" size="40">
<p>
Please Enter Your Email Address:<br>
<input name="username" size="40">
<p>
Please Enter Your Phone Number:<br>
<input name="phone" size="40">
<p>
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<input type="submit" value="Submit">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">
</form>
YOUR-USER-ID
is the user ID for your public key. If your user ID contains
characters that could be misinterpreted by a web browser,
such as '<' and '>', you will want to replace these
characters with the proper escape sequences. For example if
your user ID is:
John Q. Smith <12345.6789@compuserve.com>
Represent the user ID with the
following string (note the < and > escape sequences):
John Q. Smith <12345.6789@compuserve.com>
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