form spam still getting through even though use askimet, cant see honeypot hidde...

Hi

All up to date, diagnostics below.

This is the entire form template (file: perch/templates/content/contactform.html):

<perch:form id="contact" method="post" app="perch_forms">

    <perch:content id="intro" type="textarea" label="Intro" textile="false" editor="ckeditor" size="m" />

    <div>
        <perch:label for="name">Name</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="text" id="name" required="true" label="Name" antispam="name" />
        <perch:error for="name" type="required">Please add your name</perch:error>
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:label for="email">Email</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="email" id="email" required="true" label="Email" placeholder="you@company.com" antispam="email" />
        <perch:error for="email" type="required">Please add your email address</perch:error>
        <perch:error for="email" type="format">Please check your email address</perch:error>
    </div>
    <div>
    <perch:input type="text" id="qcperch" antispam="honeypot" />
        <perch:input type="submit" id="submit" value="Subscribe!" />
    </div>

    <perch:success>
        <perch:content id="success" type="textarea" label="Thank you message" textile="false" editor="ckeditor" />
    </perch:success>
</perch:form>

Perch: 2.8.34, PHP: 5.6.22, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 76b08b24596e12d4553bd41fc93cccd5bac2fe7a $, with PDO Server OS: Linux, cgi-fcgi Installed apps: content (2.8.34), assets (2.8.34), categories (2.8.34), perch_blog (5.0), perch_forms (1.8.3) App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = array( 'content', 'categories', 'perch_blog', 'perch_forms' ); ?> PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch PERCH_PATH: /var/sites/q/qccartoon.com/public_html/perch PERCH_CORE: /var/sites/q/qccartoon.com/public_html/perch/core PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /var/sites/q/qccartoon.com/public_html/perch/resources Image manipulation: GD PHP limits: Max upload 100M, Max POST 100M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 100M F1: 6a33f95eca3667f9e0c39bf5ca2980fe Resource folder writeable: Yes DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/sites/w/www.qccartoon.com/public_html HTTP_HOST: www.qccartoon.com REQUEST_URI: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/ SCRIPT_NAME: /perch/core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

that did it, thanks

if you look at https://www.qccartoon.com/, right hand side, there is now an empty field above the subscribe button

i thought the adding honeypot might have hidden this field, but no problem, do i just hide it via css?

I just hid the honeypot field, i believe this is the correct thing to do...

thanks for your help

I have honeypot enabled and hidden field in form, and am hooked up to askimet.

but am still getting about 1 spam submittion a day, all similar to this:

Name: 59241cb405f76 Email: ameliarieth@gmail.com

I can see similar emails going straight to spam, where there are about 3-4 coming through per day but that's fine as correctly being flagged as spam

is it realistic of me to expect less spam that about 1 per day? or should askimet used in conjunction with honeypot stop all spam?

am thinking a simple captcha would sort this... Help appreciated

I have honeypot and askimet enabled https://www.qccartoon.com/. I'm getting too much spam still via form, 2-3 a day. Have had 3 today already (31st may 2017)

I have other forms on other websites and the captchas do seem to sort most spam, so they do work. Problem is there is no captcha addon for perch as you guys don't like captcha.

All the emails are fairly obvious spam too where the name is a number:

Name: 592eb901ad9db Email: chaz_56_00@yahoo.com

Is there anything else I can do to stop the spam form submissions?

HTML5 character validation in name field?

pattern="[a-zA-Z ]+"

Only accept all latin characters in the name field including spaces.

Hi Lexi, thanks for that, giving it a try.

Just to let you know I was having the same 'Name: 592eb901ad9db' spam issue. Akismet was catching one or two of them but the majority were still getting through. I raised the issue with Akismet support and they looked into it. Their reply...

"Akismet should begin catching these spams shortly. Thanks for bringing it to our attention."

It's now caught all of them so far. Hopefully it should be the same for you.

Hi Simon, great work, thanks for contacting akismet, and posting here.

the last spam was 31st may when i firs set up 'pattern="[a-zA-Z ]+"', but will take that off and see how spam goes.