Many spammers will use automated software to crawl through your site
looking for email addresses to add to their database. They will either
send you spam themselves or sell their database of email addresses to
other spammers. Direct links to email addresses will be harvested. And
recipient fields only visible in the HTML of the page will also be
harvested:
<input
type="hidden" name="recipient" value="yourname@your-actual-domain.com">
The way around this is to not have direct links to email addresses on
your site but instead have links to forms pages where your shoppers can
submit their queries. Secondly, on the forms pages that you create, omit
the line below:
<input
type="hidden" name="recipient" value="yourname@your-actual-domain.com">
When you omit the recipient field on your page, the fmail.pl script will
not know where to send the form results. So you will need to:
1. Download (in ASCII mode not binary mode) the fmail.pl script
from your site using FTP software.
2. Open the fmail.pl script on your local computer using something like
WordPad.
3. Find the line below: (it will of course show your actual domain name
not the
your-actual-domain.com) @allow_mail_to = qw(your-actual-domain.com localhost);
4. Change that line to:
@allow_mail_to = qw(secretemailaddress@your-actual-domain.com
your-actual-domain.com localhost);
You are leaving the your domain name in the field but before it, you are
adding a default email address that the fmail.pl script will use if your
page does not pass it a value for the recipient.
5. Re-upload (in ASCII mode not binary mode) the fmail.pl script
to the server, into your cgi-bin directory.
6. Now test your form.
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