I'm using the standard EE Contact Form (exp:email:contact_form) and getting spammed. Apart from enabling CAPTCHA, are there any good ways of reducing spam from it? Using EE 5.3.2.
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You need to check out Snaptcha from Put Your Lights On. A remarkable add-on for EE - install it and it just works: no configuration or hoopla. Have used on several installations and it is effective. Highly recommended.
answered Aug 28, 2020 at 23:33
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Nice! I didn't know that was still around. Used it for EE2 and it worked well. Glad to see it's still around and working.– jphansenCommented Aug 29, 2020 at 19:40
Short of using a Captcha there's no sure fire way to stop spam. https://putyourlightson.com/plugins/snaptcha-ee is a good Captcha because it works behind the scenes, I've used it and it does stop most spam.
There's always the option of forcing visitors to do a preview first before sending, using the preview parameter https://docs.expressionengine.com/latest/add-ons/email.html#preview - bots tend to miss this so it can stop most spam, albeit at slight inconvenience.
Interesting results: With Snaptcha (set to highest protection) + EE's built-in contact form, I still get spammed. But I never get spam via any of my FreeForm Pro forms. So I'm going to use FreeForm Pro for my contact form, as well.
I thought Spaptcha and FreeForm used similar "honeypot" methods? Maybe not.
Update: Been using FreeForm as my contact form for a few days and haven't gotten any spam. It says it's filtered out 62 now and I believe it.
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I installed it and it said it automatically did that, so I assumed yes.– jphansenCommented Sep 10, 2020 at 2:23
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I remember you had to add a line of code somewhere when you're using it with the EE contact form?!?! Maybe I'm wrong– Benoit LCommented Sep 10, 2020 at 15:55
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Interesting. That would explain things. Reading putyourlightson.com/plugins/snaptcha-ee#using-snaptcha, they really hype not having to do anything other than install Snaptcha.– jphansenCommented Sep 11, 2020 at 17:03