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After a period of denial ... my hosting provider agreed that there was an error with php email on my server. Fortunately, I was running another website on a different server which I could use as...

...you were right, now I get the same error message on 3 websites!
(formmail versions 8.16, 8.21 & 8.24)



...awaiting the outcome from my host's investigation...

My host provider has agreed to take a look a their php setup.

What is also curious is that I have a domain using formmail v8.16 (with ini file option activated) & instead of returning a form or...

...the strange thing is that the identical setup works on another website. I was wondering if my shared server was blocked in some way...?

Thanks!

I tried both testmail test (& reconfigured the formmail.php, as required.
Both tests FAILED...

I subscribed to your automated form generation service as all of my forms have just stopped working. The host are not prepared to advise on 3rd party software.

I get the message:


This...

...as I mentioned, I would agree with you on the CAPTCHA issue now.

It is also true that most of my spam is direct mail (although I do get some form spam, usually from forms I have yet to...

Since my last posting, I have kept up to date with the latest Tectite releases & upgraded other spam filters. I have a McAfee filter & one provided by my ISP. Both of these are set above the default...

Thanks for all your help 'Ginger'.

If you have any more thoughts on the security of this setup, I would like to hear...

Yes, this means formmail.php and formmail.ini are now in the same 'secure' directory.

Changed



to

Just to clarify, you would put the INI here:



Where MYDOMAIN has the SSL cert?

Moved INI to:


DB_SEE_INI now works
but
DEF_ALERT is sent Socket error 0: :

SERVER_DOCUMENT_ROOT

It looks like this:

I have deleted the INI file & started again in Notepad.
Still get the same error...

Tried saving in UTF-8 not ANSI
Still get the same error...

I have upgraded to version 8.21 as this domain runs PHP5.
DB_SEE_INI is set to 'true'

Now I don't get the DB_SEE_INI page showing, just the standard error page & email to DEF_ALERT:


...

I placed it in the cgi-bin as this is only folder above the root that my linux host gives me access to. It works on my other websites but not on this SSL domain.

As I said, I have tried placing...

This is the result when my form is submitted with DB_SEE_INI set 'true':




My INI file contains:

[email_addresses]
me = "boss@mydomain.com"

Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know.

As most of the spam contains two URLs I have tried the softer ATTACK_DETECTION_MANY_URLS configuration. This seems to have worked ...for now!

...the reason I made this posting was because I could not find the relevant information at the time. Now I think I have:

http://www.tectite.com/fmdoc/attack_detection_reverse_captcha.php

Like many of us, I have been plagued with spam that has bypassed both my BT & Mcaffee filters.

I installed Tectite Formail & set up the AT_MANGLE function but this did not stop them. I have...