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I've got a website www.villabegur.com that had a couple of e-mail forms on it. I have got so fed up with spam coming from it that I removed the forms and replaced them with a mailto: link. My ISP seems to do a very good job of SPAM through normal mail but SPAM sent through the mail form always got through.

The strange thing is that I am still getting the spam as though the form was still on site. It could be that I still have an old form somewhere but I have looked through my site and can't find it. Is there a way of searching through my site and finding the offending form or finding it from the mail I received?

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Have you just replaced the links? If you have and the forms are physically still there but not linked to, it may be that the offending spammers have the form pages bookmarked.

Just a thought.
 
The email address in the form has already been harvested by a spam engine by the sounds of it. Email forms just send an email out with the info already in there so not sure how your isp was distinquishing between them ?
Formwise or email wise it's just an email, unless the form data email is routed internally past the spam filter which wouldn't make sense either.
 
Another thought, were the email forms your own cgi or the hosting companies. If they're your own, then rename or delete the cgis to stop the spammers hitting it.
 
Thanks for taking the time to respond guys. I think I'm going to download everything that is on the site as I have added a lot to it over the years and have probably got lot of unlinked pages. I'll then search for the offending forms.

I don't think it is that they have taken the email address as the format of the e-mail is exactly as sent by the web form. Puz, the form is one of the hosting company's.

I don't suppose there is a way to search through all the code on a site remotely to find the offending form?
 
An email crawler would only access the current site, depends when the email spam started. So what ever pages were active then are the ones you should check first.

Pity about the form, that would have been the 1st thing to delete. So the format of the email from the webform = the spam email address ? And is that the same as the mailto email address or not ?

As for remotely scanning a site, there probably is a way but simpler to download the site to disc and scan it using Search under windows/mac.
 
Puz said:
So the format of the email from the webform = the spam email address ? And is that the same as the mailto email address
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Exactly

As for remotely scanning a site, there probably is a way but simpler to download the site to disc and scan it using Search under windows/mac.
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I'm trying to do that now but can't find it!

Thanks for the dead link by the way, now fixed.

I'm looking forward to updating all the photos when I go up there in a couple of weeks armed with my new Sigma 10-20mm!
 
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