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Getting spam via mailform

MagnayandYates1 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 06:22:06 GMT

I have set up a mailform on the mag/nayandya/tes.co.uk website (delete slashes if you want to look at it) but now I'm getting spam email with rubbish text in the name, address, phone etc values and more rubbish text with some hyperlinks in the message body.

Is there an easy way I can do some simple form validation - such as checking against letters in the phone number field and the right format for postcode?

Re: Getting spam via mailform

mournetraining — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:40:57 GMT

I have just received a spam email through the form on my website. IP address is IP: 82.165.246.155. I Googled it and found that it was a known spam IP. Can anyone advise on whether I should just ignore it or is there anything I should do to report/prevent it?

Thanks

Re: Getting spam via mailform

dave — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:03:09 GMT

I would ignore it personally. You can prevent it happening by implementing some kind of validation system, although if you are using ESW Pro then this will not be so easy to do.