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Spam Links Index > Preventing Spam > Formmail

To link to this page use: http://spamlinks.net/formmail.htm

Anti-spam Formmail Tips

Formmail scripts can be abused to send spam to any recipient; the latest version has been patched, badly. Use one of these alternatives.

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• Safer Scripts
• Testing
• Alerts
• Honeypots

Anti-spam Formmail Scripts

ftp://ftp.monkeys.com/pub/formmail/1.9s/
http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/
http://81832.com/dl/formmail.zip
http://moensted.dk/formmail/
http://ostermiller.org/contactform/
http://www.phlyingpenguin.net/?form2mail
http://ente.limmat.ch:8080/mailwebform/doc/index.html
http://jimsun.linxnet.com/SCForm.html

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Testing Formmail Scripts

ftp://ftp.monkeys.com/pub/formmail/fmtest.pl

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Formmail Security Alerts

http://www.monkeys.com/anti-spam/formmail-advisory.ps (example exploit: http://www.monkeys.com/formmailer/)
http://www.mailvalley.com/formmail/ http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/Formmail_pl_Can_Be_Used_As_An_Open_Mail_Relay.html
http://www.nwfusion.com/newsletters/bug/2001/00556960.html
http://securitytracker.com/alerts/2001/Mar/1001108.html

The flawed script is: http://www.scriptarchive.com/formmail.html. DO NOT USE IT.

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Formmail Anti-spam Honeypots

http://www.cynistar.net/~apthorpe/code/probewatch/probewatch.html
http://www.uea.ac.uk/~l003/fmspam/
http://void.thunderteam.org/fm-trap.html
http://www.linux.it/~md/software/ (look for formail.diff)

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