On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Andrey Novikov wrote:
>
> > > Ah, but what is the correct "From" addres when a web server sends
> > > email? Some cg scripts will set it to whatever the person in the
> > > browser types in the "email address" field - a very bad practice,
> > > IMNSHO.
>
> > Why do you think I'm doing that. The task is not to send
> > email to me. I do know that there is no reason to reply to
> > pseudo-user. But the task is to send email to that
> > person(s), for him to be able to reply me and to get error
> > replyes on my address but not on pseudo-users. Is it making
> > any sence?
>
> What I do is the following: My CGI (it's not actually a CGI, but lets
> call it that anyway) allows for the mail header Reply-To: to contain an
> email address specified by the submitter of the form. So when I reply to
> one of those the reply goes to the Reply-To address. I still have the
> mail message be From (both the header from and the envelope from) the
> webserver daemon.
>
> In the email generated by the CGI, it is a good idea to add explicit text
> in the body saying.
>
> The person who submitted the form supplied the email address
> $replyto
> There is no guarentee that that address is correct or belongs to the
> person who submitted the form, but a normal Reply to this message will
> be sent to that address.
>
> Also it is useful to add things to the message headers like
Might also be helpful to include HTTP_REMOTE_HOST (er, I think thats
the variable that contains the IP address of the WWW client host)
>
> X-Note: This message was generated by the XXX program on SERVER when
> called by the web form at HTTP_REFERER. If this causes problems or
> is being abused in any way, please notify ...
>
> -j
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