Re: [cobalt-users] FormMail is SO slow.

[Patrick Béart <patrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:47 AM -0400 8/23/00, Cmopollux@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Has anyone had problams running Formmail.  For me it takes almost 2 min to
> process.

	FormMail.pl (Matt Wright's script) is a poorly written PERL 
program. That it runs slow is most likely indicative of both of these 
facts.

	If you want it to run faster, consider a compiled (C, or 
similar) program, or a better PERL script. I use "Mailto.cgi", 
instead.




Patrick Béart
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