honeypot field: doesn't seem to weed out spam as expected

Hi, can you post your form template?

Here is my form template:

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

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

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

    <div>
        <perch:label for="email">Email address</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="email" id="email" required="true" label="Email" placeholder="you@company.com" />
        <perch:error for="email" type="required">Please add a your email address</perch:error>
        <perch:error for="email" type="format">Please check a your email address</perch:error>
    </div>

    <div>
      <perch:label for="class">Choose a class location and time</perch:label>
      <perch:input type="select" id="class" required="true" label="Choice of class" 
          options="Grace Church: Mon 9:30am, Grace Church: Mon 10:30am,Crown Point Baptist Church: Tue 10:15am, Bay &amp; Bee: Tue 5pm, Casa Marina Hotel: Wed 9am, Casa Marina Hotel: Wed 10am, Celestial Farms: Thu 4pm, Queen's Harbour: Fri 10am, Grace Church: Sat 9:30am" />

      <perch:error for="class" type="required">
      <span class="error">Please select which class you want to attend.</span>
      </perch:error>
    </div>

    <perch:input type="text" id="subject" antispam="honeypot" />

    <div>
        <perch:label for="message">Questions or comments</perch:label>
        <perch:input type="textarea" id="message" required="false" label="Message" />
    </div>

    <div>
        <perch:input type="submit" id="submit" value="Send" />
    </div>



    <perch:success>
        <perch:content id="success" type="textarea" label="Thank you message" textile="true" editor="markitup" />
        <h4>Thank you for signing up for a free class! Check out the <a href="https://www.jaxmusictogether.com/locations/">locations</a> page for directions. We're looking forward to meeting you!</h4>
    </perch:success>
</perch:form>

And here is the diagnostics report:

PERCH INFORMATION

Perch: 2.8.29 Production mode: Production (100) Installed apps: content (2.8.29), assets (2.8.29), categories (2.8.29), perch_blog (5.0), perch_events (1.9), perch_forms (1.8.3), perch_gallery (2.5.1) DB driver: PDO DB tables: perch2_blog_authors (2), perch2_blog_categories (0), perch2_blog_comments (43), perch2_blog_index (1362), perch2_blog_posts (5), perch2_blog_posts_to_categories (0), perch2_blog_posts_to_tags (1), perch2_blog_sections (1), perch2_blog_tags (1), perch2_blogs (1), perch2_categories (0), perch2_category_counts (0), perch2_category_sets (1), perch2_content_index (1142), perch2_content_items (274), perch2_content_regions (9), perch2_events (594), perch2_events_categories (0), perch2_events_to_categories (0), perch2_forms (1), perch2_forms_responses (1), perch2_gallery_albums (1), perch2_gallery_image_versions (150), perch2_gallery_images (25), perch2_navigation (0), perch2_navigation_pages (0), perch2_page_templates (1), perch2_pages (5), perch2_resource_log (59), perch2_resource_tags (0), perch2_resources (30), perch2_resources_to_tags (0), perch2_settings (15), perch2_user_passwords (0), perch2_user_privileges (42), perch2_user_role_privileges (15), perch2_user_roles (2), perch2_users (2) Users: 2 App runtimes: <?php include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/content/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/core/apps/categories/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_gallery/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_events/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_blog/runtime.php'); include(PERCH_PATH.'/addons/apps/perch_forms/runtime.php'); ?> Scheduled tasks for perch_blog: delete_spam_comments (1440 mins) Scheduled tasks for perch_events: update_category_counts (60 mins) Editor plug-ins: markitup H1: 34a771896720528d8c79c72a3f4cfcff L1: 2dda51028d08e5c2e134c3c33aca641a F1: 2edba60ed1f613d6dd804feb202456a2 headerColour: #ffffff content_singlePageEdit: 1 helpURL: siteURL: / hideBranding: 0 content_collapseList: 1 lang: en-gb latest_version: 2.8.15 update_2.6.3: done on_sale_version: 2.8.29 update_2.6.6: done perch_blog_post_url: /blog/post.php?s={postSlug} perch_blog_update: 5.0.1 perch_events_update: 1.8 update_2.8.29: done PERCH_DEVELOPMENT: 10 PERCH_STAGING: 50 PERCH_PRODUCTION: 100 PERCH_DB_USERNAME: db173252 PERCH_DB_SERVER: external-db.s173252.gridserver.com PERCH_DB_DATABASE: db173252_jaxmusic PERCH_DB_PREFIX: perch2_ PERCH_EMAIL_FROM: fidlet@me.com PERCH_EMAIL_FROM_NAME: Christina Ramey PERCH_LOGINPATH: /perch PERCH_PATH: /nfs/c07/h05/mnt/173252/domains/jaxmusictogether.com/html/perch PERCH_CORE: /nfs/c07/h05/mnt/173252/domains/jaxmusictogether.com/html/perch/core PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /nfs/c07/h05/mnt/173252/domains/jaxmusictogether.com/html/perch/resources PERCH_RESPATH: /perch/resources PERCH_HTML5: 1 PERCH_RUNWAY: PERCH_ERROR_MODE: DIE PERCH_DATE_LONG: %d %B %Y PERCH_DATE_SHORT: %d %b %Y PERCH_TIME_SHORT: %H:%M PERCH_TIME_LONG: %H:%M:%S PERCH_RUNWAY_ROUTED: PERCH_STRONG_PASSWORDS: PERCH_DEBUG: PERCH_PREVIEW_ARG: preview PERCH_TEMPLATE_PATH: /nfs/c07/h05/mnt/173252/domains/jaxmusictogether.com/html/perch/templates PERCH_DEFAULT_DOC: index.php PERCH_DEFAULT_EXT: .php PERCH_PRODUCTION_MODE: 100 PERCH_RWD: PERCH_HTML_ENTITIES: PERCH_SSL: PERCH_STRIPSLASHES: PERCH_PROGRESSIVE_FLUSH: 1 PERCH_PARANOID: PERCH_FORCE_SECURE_COOKIES: PERCH_PASSWORD_MIN_LENGTH: 6 PERCH_MAX_FAILED_LOGINS: 10 PERCH_AUTH_LOCKOUT_DURATION: 1 HOUR PERCH_VERIFY_UPLOADS: PERCH_AUTH_PLUGIN: PERCH_DB_CHARSET: utf8 PERCH_DB_PORT: PERCH_DB_SOCKET: PERCH_SESSION_TIMEOUT_MINS: 20 HOSTING SETTINGS

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I have two forms on my website. And they are both processing submissions. But when I go into the admin backend, and go to the forms app, it only lists one form.

No -- they had the same id's! I must have copied and pasted one form as the template for the other, and forgot to change the id's. I corrected the error. Now, the app sees the second form, and looks like it correctly marks forms that have the honeypot filled out as spam, which is great!

One last question -- if it's set up to email the responses somewhere, do you know if it emails the responses marked as spam?

Hi, form entries that are marked as spam aren't emailed.

Hi, looks like you solved your problem. One little thing I'd add is that while the honeypot field does its job well, I found with a client site is that a lot of spam submissions still got through.

Adding Akismet as well has completely solved the issue – a belt and braces approach :)