FrontendForms - A module for creating and validating forms on the frontend

[Peter Knight]

Sounds great. What happens when an email is identified as spam. Does it get logged, recorded and not forwarded? Or are there options in case of false positives.  

[Juergen]

Hello @Peter Knight

At the moment, it stops the successful form submission like any other validator and an error message will be displayed to the user under the inputfield, that the text looks like SPAM with a hint to prevent 

• using to much links
• to write to much words in uppercase letters
• using typical SPAM words and so on

If a form has too much failed attempts, it will be logged, with timestamp and IP if this security measure was not disabled manually, but not with detailed information. 

So at the moment it only stops the successful form submission. Maybe the error message is written generally. This could be improved to give more information of what went wrong. 

Idea: Could be done only via a session I think but I have to try it.

 

 

[Peter Knight]

Thanks Juergen 

I guess what I was imagining would be the apparent successful submission of a form. The ProcessWire admin might get the spam notification (or not) to catch any false positives. Is there a danger that by telling spammers or bots what content triggers the spam gate, that we are educating them on how to avoid the system you have in place? 
 

Im only coming at this from my own PoV. Looks like a great Module.