Welcome to the cgiemail2 home page. Cgiemail2 is an open-source program that gives Web developers an easy way to collect data from HTML form pages through an email message. One useful benefit of receiving mail this way is that the format and content of the mail can be pre-defined, which simplifies parsing and manipulation at the receiving end.
cgiemail2 is the descendant of the now rather ancient and widely-used cgiemail. Both cgiemail2 and cgiemail programs are Common Gateway Interface (CGI) applications which runs on a Web server host.
Note for MIT website developers who can choose between using cgiemail2 or cgiemail: We encourage you to use cgiemail2 for all new applications, as it has many new features and is based on a more recent code base. We intend to let cgiemail eventually fall into complete disuse, at which time it will be de-supported. Until then, both cgiemail2 and cgiemail will be available to MIT website developers on web.mit.edu.
cgiemail2 is based on cgiemail, but contains features and a number of revisions needed for newer applications. A distribution is available for downloading by webserver maintainers, and the program is available for use by MIT website maintainers on web.mit.edu. It is currently under development.
If you run a webserver and want to install cgiemail2 on it, you can download source code for the latest release, and any previous versions, at:
http://web.mit.edu/wwwdev/cgiemail2/download/
The files ending with .gz were compressed with the GNU utility gzip for reduced transmission time. See the Installation Guide for complete instructions on unpacking and building cgiemail.