Strange forwarding

  • Resolved Imagemahmacc

    (@mahmacc)


    1 year, 4 months ago

    One of our email accounts is receiving forwarded spam email which apparently arrives via Akismet with a header such as

    —–Original Message—– From: Jeffreyrop <yasen.krasen.13+77049@mail.ru> Sent: 03 November 2024 08:09 To: tickets@festivalchorushackney.org.uk Subject: Akismet: Spam – Survey response Ofiefheufjwoidjwi hfjsfoiewhgifewhfjasifdj qwoifjwkawdkkwefuhfkwoapdfweh jfkewijfgrogr

    Why would any such email get sent rather than intercepted by Akismet?

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  • Plugin Contributor ImageJosh Smith

    (@procifer)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Hi there, it appears that Akismet did mark the message as spam, but that message is added by the “Fast Secure Contact Form” plugin, which has sent the message despite being spam. I’m not entirely familiar with that plugin, but from looking through the code a bit, it appears there’s a setting in the plugin to ‘Tag as spam and send anyway’. Can you take a look in your plugin settings and see if you can switch that to ‘Block spam messages’?

    Thread Starter Imagemahmacc

    (@mahmacc)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Thanks for that excellent bit of diagnosis. The plugin was installed by my predecessor but as far as I can see we have no actual contact forms in use. However, I have now amended the settings as you suggested. Many thanks. This thread can now be closed

    Plugin Contributor ImageStephane Daury (stephdau)

    (@stephdau)

    1 year, 4 months ago

    Wonderful! Thanks for having confirmed my colleague’s conclusion.

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