On the website I support, I use FrontPage forms to gather information and
then email it to one of our church members for handling. It seems that the
email process is being exploited to send spam under our domain name. I need
some advice about preventing this. It has been suggested that an add-in might
be available that presents those random little boxes with funky, graphic text
that the form user has to input in order to submit the form. Any suggestions
on sources for this type of addin or an alternate approach to blocking the
email spoofing?
--
Greg, the volunteer webmaster

Greg wrote:
> On the website I support, I use FrontPage forms to gather information and
> then email it to one of our church members for handling. It seems that the
> email process is being exploited to send spam under our domain name. I need
> some advice about preventing this. It has been suggested that an add-in might
> be available that presents those random little boxes with funky, graphic text
> that the form user has to input in order to submit the form. Any suggestions
> on sources for this type of addin or an alternate approach to blocking the
> email spoofing?




You can't do that with the Frontpage form.

It requires a server side script to generate the image or code, and to
verify the code entered is correct. Try the PHP emailer script at
http://www.veign.com/code-view.php?type=web&codeid=59

As Andrew said using Captcha or similar devices is only effective when
the form is processed by server side scripting - the FrontPage
extensions cannot be used for this, and while JavaScript can be used to
validate a Captha device, spammers will have JavaScript turned off
making the whole idea a waste of effort.

Some other ideas are at http://www.rxs-enterprises.org.tests/anti-spam/
but these all require server side scripting (asp, asp.NET, PHP etc.)
--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp




"Greg" <Greg [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2E961CCB-C840-4EC8-BA0B-0F06A0977D7E [at] microsoft.com:

> On the website I support, I use FrontPage forms to gather information and
> then email it to one of our church members for handling. It seems that the
> email process is being exploited to send spam under our domain name. I need
> some advice about preventing this. It has been suggested that an add-in might
> be available that presents those random little boxes with funky, graphic text
> that the form user has to input in order to submit the form. Any suggestions
> on sources for this type of addin or an alternate approach to blocking the
> email spoofing?
> --
> Greg, the volunteer webmaster

Correction:
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/tests/anti-spam/

--
Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.

http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp




"Ronx" <ronx917 [at] hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O04#nmLZIHA.4448 [at] TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl:

> As Andrew said using Captcha or similar devices is only effective when
> the form is processed by server side scripting - the FrontPage
> extensions cannot be used for this, and while JavaScript can be used to
> validate a Captha device, spammers will have JavaScript turned off
> making the whole idea a waste of effort.
>
> Some other ideas are at http://www.rxs-enterprises.org.tests/anti-spam/
> but these all require server side scripting (asp, asp.NET, PHP etc.)
> --
> Ron Symonds - Microsoft MVP (FrontPage)
> Reply only to group - emails will be deleted unread.
>
> http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp
>
>
>
>
> "Greg" <Greg [at] discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2E961CCB-C840-4EC8-BA0B-0F06A0977D7E [at] microsoft.com:
>
> > On the website I support, I use FrontPage forms to gather information and
> > then email it to one of our church members for handling. It seems that the
> > email process is being exploited to send spam under our domain name. I need
> > some advice about preventing this. It has been suggested that an add-in might
> > be available that presents those random little boxes with funky, graphic text
> > that the form user has to input in order to submit the form. Any suggestions
> > on sources for this type of addin or an alternate approach to blocking the
> > email spoofing?
> > --
> > Greg, the volunteer webmaster