Posted by Rik on 10/26/06 03:38

Shelly wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
>
>> "When this button is pressed, I want the user's default email
>> program.."
>>
>> To send email from the user's email program, you will need to
>> expose the client's email to the spambots. You do NOT want to do
>> this.
>
> How is that so? When the button is pressed, I would find the email
> from a database and then open the email program. Is it in the
> passing from the current form to the email client that is the leak?

Well, a *then* I will find the emailadress is not true. If you want this,
you'll have to look it up earlier, and have it within your HTML/possbly JS
code.]

Jerry is mainly concerned (as am I), that people giving their emailadress
to one party, agreeing to be mailed by them, will not have to worry about
their emailadress being harvested from the source, or from a mail to
others. So, tell us this is on a really secure backend for your client,
which is impossible to access by any other then that client.

> Anyway, I implemented a form and used mail().

Good choice, and make sure that form is not in any way publicly available.
--
Rik Wasmus

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