Longer Messages marked as spam

What plugins and theme do you use? Can I see your site?

The site is not yet live unfortunately. My theme is a custom child theme of Twenty-Ten Below is a list of my active plugins:

Ambrosite Next/Previous Page Link Plus
Ambrosite Next/Previous Post Link Plus
Contact Form 7
Custom Link Widget
Dynamic To Top
Easy FancyBox
Email Log
Force Post Category Selection
MediaElement.js – HTML5 Audio and Video
NextGEN Gallery
Regenerate Thumbnails
Simple Image Size
Use Google Libraries
WePay WordPress Plugin
Weptile Image Slider Widget

All except the Email log will remain once the site goes live, and I may turn on Akismet if we have a problem with spam, but since it will be a limited use site. I will also more than likely add WPBackup and BPS Security.

OK. So, Akismet is not active now, right? Then try deactivating all other plugins and switching to the default theme for now. Check if it affects the behavior.

I kind of figured you would ask me to do that. I didn’t have a chance until today.

Unloaded all except CF7 and activated TwentyTen and had the exact same result.

Can I check your site?

Here is a direct link to the contact page:

https://wp.dbifgs.org/contact-us-2/

For now, I’ve removed all other contacts except mine from the drop-down. I want to have this working before I start using it for everyone (the board, the treasurer, etc).

Feel free to give it a shot. I’ve re-enabled all the plugins and my theme.

Oh, and it seem sot be not just limited to 99 characters. I tried earlier, and could only get a message of “this is a test please reply” to go through. Just now, I got an entire paragraph…

Eric the Grey

Try adding this line to the wp-config.php file in the top directory of your WordPress installation:

define('WPCF7_VERIFY_NONCE', false);

Note that it is necessary to be inserted before the /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ comment line.

Then tell us if it can change the behavior.

This is just for temporary testing so remove the added line from wp-config.php immediately after testing or your site will be put at risk.

Tried that, and received the same response. I was able to send a longer message than the last time, but it still marked a longer message as spam.

Eric the Grey

OK. That ruled out nonce issue.

Do you use Comment Blacklist?

Yes, yes I do, and that appears to be the issue.

I removed everything (it was quite the extensive list) and the form sends just fine, even with several times the number of words I was first attempting to send.

Do you think this is caused by the number of words in my list. I originally dug it up on the ‘net as a suggested list of “bad words” and quite frankly didn’t look at every single word. If this is the cause, can we make use of this at all?

Eric the Grey

OK. Probably it was the cause. Current Contact Form 7 uses the list, too.

If the words in the list are really bad words, you don’t want to see those words in the mail coming from contact forms as well, do you? If some of the list are not so bad and you think you don’t have any problems with them, just pick them off.

Ok. I’ll go through the list and weed it down. Nothing that I was trying to send should have been on that list, but who knows at this point.

Thanks again.