Historical software reference — discontinued

EasyResponder

A Perl CGI script formerly distributed by the original PerlCoders company, recorded here because its legacy URLs are still referenced. It is not available, not supported, and not recommended for use.

What we know

Kind: CGI script
Era: Late 1990s – early 2000s CGI era Unverified
Status: Discontinued. No successor, no maintained fork known to us.
Distributed by: The original PerlCoders company, which this publication is not.

Former purpose

The name suggests an email autoresponder — software that replied automatically to messages submitted through a web form.

Reconstructed, not documented Reconstructed from the product name and legacy URL pattern only. No original documentation has been located. Corrections with a source are welcome.

Historical URL variants

/main/scripts.html?script=EasyResponder

Known security advisories

Advisories on record

None located

No advisory and no source code have been located in our evidence. That means no product-specific security assessment is possible. If code is ever recovered with usable rights, mail-header construction and subprocess boundaries would be review targets.

Modern equivalent pattern

Use a transactional email provider with an authenticated API and a server-side template. Never build the message envelope by string concatenation from user input — that is precisely the shape that made this class of script dangerous.

Script Rescue: rewriting a CGI form handler →

Sources

Source list is empty Everything on this page derives from the legacy URL pattern and the product name.