contact.module is evil!

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Posted by Tobias Maier on December 27, 2006 at 5:40pm

Every day I get two or three spam mails through the contact form on one of my homepages.
This is why I think, that the contact.module and Drupal is evil ;)

Do you have the same problems?
What are your solutions against this?

Regards Tobi

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same problems - no solution (yet)

Posted by greggles on December 28, 2006 at 2:36pm
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I have the same problems, but no real solution just yet.

I know that captcha would work, but I don't like the idea of captcha very much. I've also heard that many of the submissions to these types of forms are automated (e.g. spambots) that have been trained to work on Drupal sites. So, adding a non-standard and required field to a form can help to reduce the problem. That wouldn't work well on the contact form, of course.

So...captcha? Is that it?

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Posted by steinmb@drupal.... on January 8, 2007 at 9:09am
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During this weekend I got alot of russian spam through the contact module. I can`t take it anymore, arrrrgh!

Was CAPTCHA the ultimate solution? In case, what is the best module for Drupal?

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Posted by mlncn on January 27, 2007 at 4:18pm
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Making a multi-option (Sales, Support, Jim) contact form and not selecting a default option reduces spam.

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There is a patch

Posted by arthurf on January 27, 2007 at 7:39pm
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See: http://drupal.org/node/69202, #38 for a patch that fixes this.

http://24b6.net

captcha helps

Posted by drewish on January 27, 2007 at 11:27pm
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i get the feeling that the bots just run though and put data into every form they can find and submit it. i haven't had any specifically targeting drupal run through any of my sites. as is noted elsewhere in this thread, not selecting a default subject does wonders.

inmail offers good captcha.

Posted by islandnetcom on March 3, 2010 at 10:48pm
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Hello,

I work for Islandnet.com, a small hosting company but we have a great gadget, not a module but it does have a great captcha functions:

https://helpdesk.islandnet.com/gadgets/inmail/

There is no reason you cant have a page in Drupal and slip in the code needed to it with the PHP compiled gadget and the config file. The gadget only works on Islandnet.com hosting so please call us and we can help you get setup, we have some good Drupal installs, a real slick one belongs to http://www.pacificrimpaddling.com/

Thanks,
Rob Turner
Islandnet.com Snr CSR