Spam-proof form mail script?
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ehasler

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8,579 posts

313 months

Friday 25th November 2005
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I currently use a formmail script on my website and recently I've been receiving a number of spam mails like this:

my formmail script said:

Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
declined9919@edwardhaslerphotography.com (oung
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: lay upon her death bed, when
bcc: battsl1005@aol.com

d8f5756d1ecfa3fc727e8cc6fd4286f5
.
) on Friday, November 25, 2005 at 10:20:21
---------------------------------------------------------------------------


Submit2: declined9919@edwardhaslerphotography.com

message: declined9919@edwardhaslerphotography.com


I don't think this is going out to anyone else, but even if it isn't, it's still annoying to get loads of these mails almost every day.

I'm currently using the nms formmail script, however I'd be interested to know if there are any off the shelf perl scripts that would prevent these attempts at spam from getting through to me - possibly one where the user has to enter a verification code in order to send the mail.

Any suggestions? I've tried googling, but there are quite a few out there and I don't know if they're any good or not.

JonRB

80,078 posts

302 months

Friday 25th November 2005
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Have a look at www.hotscripts.com - loads of stuf there.

PetrolTed

34,468 posts

333 months

Friday 25th November 2005
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Just publish an email address instead but encoded?

www.web-designz.com/tools/email_encoder.shtml

thunderstruck

8,883 posts

312 months

Friday 25th November 2005
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PetrolTed said:
Just publish an email address instead but encoded?

www.web-designz.com/tools/email_encoder.shtml


Some useful stuff on that site