www09.powweb.com not found

[colleenbaker]

I am using Matt's formmail on my site. I am getting a message that says "www09.powweb.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again". This just started happening. I am getting the information on the email, but users are sending the form twice.

This is the guestbook feature on the site www.melrosecream.com. Can anyone give me an idea of what is happening?

Thanks,
DyBoren Systems, LLC
www.dyboren.com :confused: :confused: :confused:

[stevel]

Well, Matt's FormMail is a target for spammers, so I hope you are using a well-secured version and not one that just relies on the referrer. Because you have the recipient in the form, the spammers will hit you two ways - with spam to you and exploiting your form to spam others.

I recommend a more secure form such as AlienMail, or at least one that does not allow someone to supply their own recipient.

You have this:
<input type=hidden name="redirect"
value="http://www09.powweb.com/~melrosecream/ThankYouGuest.htm">
You should not be using www09.powweb.com/~melrosecream but rather www.melrosecream.com here. Your site should never reference any of the specific PowWeb servers.

[colleenbaker]

Thanks for the help. I will check out the alternate formmail you mentioned.

DyBoren Systems, LLC
:) :) :)

[Icemaid]

steve

I have the same set up:
how do I set it up to better protect myself -- as well as powweb:

As I am new to scripts;

any assistance gratefully received

thank you

Ice:)

[stevel]

If you will have the form go to you only, you can set the recipient in the script and leave it out of the form. This would be useless to spammers. I suggest asking in the PHP section of the forum for more help with this - there are many options. But if you have a script named "formmail.php" or any similar variant, spammers will find it and will try to abuse it.