Disallowing (Spam) Email Addresses In The Message Body

  • Is there a way to disallow email addresses in the message body ? I am getting spam emails from people trying to sell services etc and they include things like :
    Feel free to email me at [email protected] with any current requirements.

    I know you can disallow links which works well for reducing spam.

    A similar concept for disallowing email addresses would be good.

    There is already a separate field where the user has to enter their email address – so there is no real need to allow email addresses in the message body.

    It might not fully stop spam – but it might help.

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  • Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi,

    Will look into this. Normally spammers add links in their messages, but this is new to me.

    Guido

    I’ll second this. I’m getting the same sorts of things.

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi,

    Ok, will include this feature in next version. Will do a check on the presence of an actual email address in the message body. Will not check on alternative ways to write down an email address (by using [at] for example), to avoid unexpecting behavior.

    Guido

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi @wctade and @dshanske

    Have just updated plugin and included a new setting for this. Let me know if this works for you..

    As mentioned before there’s always a way to bypass this, by writing down email addresses differently.

    In case of a lot of spam you can now also ignore form submissions that contain links and email addresses.

    Guido

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Because you’re not replying and this feature is added to plugin, I’m marking this topic resolved.

    Thread Starter wctade

    (@wctade)

    Hi Guido

    Apologies for not responding earlier – I only got an email when you closed the ticket – rather than when you updated it.

    Anyway … many thanks for implementing the new feature but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work

    I have both “Links” and “Email Address” (the new feature) set to “Disallow”.

    If I submit the form with a URL in the message body then I get an error message and the submission fails. So that works well.

    However, if I submit the form with an email address in the message body then the submission (unexpectedly) works and the email is incorrectly sent.

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Oh, that’s strange! I will look into this later and keep you informed. Did you perhaps entered not default characters in your email address?

    Guido

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi again,

    Have just tested with different email addresses and they get blocked as expected. So I’m curious whether your email address contains not default characters or not. If it does, which characters?

    Guido

    Thread Starter wctade

    (@wctade)

    When I was testing it, and the emails were allowed through, I was using an email address without any special characters.

    The email address was of the format : [email protected]

    Plugin Author Guido

    (@guido07111975)

    Hi @wctade

    I’m very sorry, but have missed your last reply.
    The long email address that you’ve added is recognized now, if you disallow email addresses in Message field.

    Guido

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