Posted by chris on 10/13/97 11:26

I am currently having a problem with spammers
I have a form that sends the results using the PHP mail function to send to
an email address.
in the form HTML I have set the maxlength = to restrict the length of the
input thinking this would solve the problem.
but the spammers are still managing to put in something like this
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--===============1755057782==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
rgdjuff
--===============1755057782==--
'>
Contact from the WEBSITE contact page
Details below;
Name: fdujixvavr@domain.com
Phone: fdujixvavr@domain.com
Email: fdujixvavr@domain.com
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=\"===============1755057782==\"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Subject: 6ccc5874
To: fdujixvavr@domain.com
bcc: jrubin3546@aol.com
From: fdujixvavr@domain.com
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--===============1755057782==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=\"us-ascii\"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
rgdjuff
--===============1755057782==--
IP: 66.135.xx.xxx
Comments: fdujixvavr@domain.com
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the normal layout of the email is like this

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Contact from the WEBSITE contact page
Details below;
Name:
Phone:
Subject:
Email:
IP: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Comments:
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any suggestions would be great

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