This page documents the AUTORESPONDLOG configuration setting in FormMail.
Type Of Setting
AUTORESPONDLOG is an OPTIONAL setting, which means...
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OPTIONAL |
you can change this setting if you need to, but the default
value is fine for most
circumstances.
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Précis
Sets file name for the log of autoresponding activity.
Description
Set AUTORESPONDLOG to the filename on your server where auto-responding
activity is logged.
This file is stored in the $LOGDIR directory and it must be outside
your web server directory. If it isn't, then someone may be able to
harvest the email addresses from your server!
If you don't want to to keep a log of auto responding activity,
make this an empty string:
$AUTORESPONDLOG = "";
Auto responding is a potentially dangerous thing to allow from FormMail.
That's why FormMail will only do auto responding after image verification.
However, image verification is not perfect. It is possible for a very
motivated Spammer to overcome the image verification (e.g. he could
pay people to type in the image contents for him).
Therefore, you should keep a log of auto responding activity. This
way you can:
- confirm correct operation
- detect unusual activity
- respond to any queries from your hosting company or anyone else
accusing you of being a spam gateway
The log file contains:
- the date/time
- the IP address from where the user is submitting
- the email address that the auto response was sent to
- the subject line that was put in the email.
- information about the activity (success, failure, etc.)
NOTE: you'll need to create the log file on your server and make
it writable by the web server software. For security reasons,
FormMail cannot do this for you.
In general, the correct permissions for your log file are:
rw-rw-rw-
$AUTORESPONDLOG = "";
Examples
$AUTORESPONDLOG = "aresp.log";
See Also
LOGDIR
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