Re: FormMail.pl: A tiny case in point

At 22:15 13/12/1999 -0500, Rich Bowen wrote:
> > Does the rest of his stuff run on wintel? If so, my fear just
> > exponentially rose.
>
>Yes and no. FormMail.pl, out of the box, requires sendmail to send mail.
>There is, however, a version of it floating around that sends mail on
>NT. However, instead of using Mail::Sendmail, or some other CPAN module,
>it uses a monstrosity called "blat", which can email a file to an
>address. Thus, the data has to be written out to a file, and then you
>call blat on that file. Ick.

I think recent versions of blat don't require that anymore, and MS has had 
a port of sendmail to NT for a long time. I haven't dealt with that many NT 
systems, but more than once I have seen some that were using at least 
FormMail.pl, and probably a few others.

I guess it's a good thing that lives rarely rely on email feedback...




.Robin
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