{"id":1877,"date":"2018-08-07T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T10:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helpcentre\/?p=1877"},"modified":"2022-11-10T12:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T10:19:13","slug":"what-is-cgiemail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/website\/what-is-cgiemail\/","title":{"rendered":"What is cgiemail?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CGIemail is a script that allows you to send the contents of a form to an email address. <strong>It is no longer recommended and not actively supported on our servers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this flexible form-to-email script was used extensively in the past, the script has not been updated by the authors in many years.\u00a0It is not feasible for us to keep up with patching and support for old software that is not able to function correctly in a modern server environment.<\/p>\n<p>The cgiemail forms in use are outdated and lack security (CAPTCHA), which places them at risk for abuse as their vulnerabilities can more easily be exploited.<\/p>\n<p>An alternative is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.in\/php\/mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP mailer<\/a>, which uses PHP.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"CGIemail is a script that allows you to send the contents of a form to an email address. <strong>It is no longer recommended and not actively supported on our servers.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nWhile this flexible form-to-email script was used extensively in the past, the script has not been updated by the authors in many years.\u00a0It is not feasible for us to keep up with patching and support for old software that is not able to function correctly in a modern server environment.\r\n\r\nThe cgiemail forms in use are outdated and lack security (CAPTCHA), which places them at risk for abuse as their vulnerabilities can more easily be exploited.\r\n\r\nAn alternative is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3schools.in\/php\/mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PHP mailer<\/a>, which uses PHP."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGIemail is a script that allows you to send the contents of a form to an email address. 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