Re: Spam via Contact-Form

Christian Stocker <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:20:32 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.cms.bitflux.general
Organization Bitflux GmbH
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On 27.2.2006 15:17 Uhr, Adrian Nussbaum wrote:
>>
>>> I recieved a lot of spam-mails via the standard-contact-form on one 
>>> of my client's website.
>>
>> What kind of spam? Such with funny mail commands? (like content-type, 
>> Bcc: etc). Or normal Spam? We have those, too.... Not that many, 
>> although.
> A kind of "normal" spam... 5 to 10 mails a day...

Can you send me one? Best just forward it.

But if it's "normal" spam, I can't do much against right now. We would 
have to implement somehow spam protection into patforms.

chregu
> 
> 
>>
>>> can I do anything to avoid such attacks?
>>
>> It's the same as with blog-comment-spam. One could  things like 
>> captchas (those funny letters, you have to type in), blacklists, or 
>> whatever. But we didn't implement that, since the amount of spam via 
>> contact is really small here. AFAIK, I did implement something 
>> anti-spam (or anti-mail-form-abuser)-style into th eform. Can't 
>> remember when I did that. Was months ago. Which version are you using 
>> there?
> Version: 1.3.0-dev/r6175

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