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I went ahead and updated the ticket with a request to check the log. Please keep in mind that I only implemented the suggested fix for the Contact form only. The Reservation and Comment forms still have the old code. Thanks.

No I haven't. I'll go ahead and give that a try. Thanks.

Does anyone know of any other resources that I can pursue? I've looked on quite a few discussion groups and forums but I don't see anyone else having this issue. Thanks.

I've seen autoresponders work on other Flash sites. I suppose I'll have to keep looking.

Thanks again. I implemented it but it's still a no go on the autoresponder. The form comes through fine but no autoresponse is received. Strange...

Thanks. The form works now. However, still no autoresponder coming through. Do I need to put an actual email address in this snippet "-freal-email-address" ?

I tried inserting -f"real-email-address" but it causes the form to fail (I replaced "real-email-address" with an actual email address). Am I doing something wrong? On another note, is there anyway to remove the two email addresses I mentioned in the original post? I believe the spam bots are already picked up on them.

Oooh, it's too early. Now I see it. Thanks for forwarding that! I'll give it a try.

Thanks. I realize that I need to have the script send email as a real user. I'm just not sure how to go about it...

I've been having unable to get the TCH Autoresponder to send an autoresponse to the form recipient's email. However, the Autoresponder works perfectly if I send an email directly from my email client. I have programmed the PHP sendmail script to work in conjunction with the Flash at my client's website, lafamiglia.com (the forms can be found at the following pages within the site: Comments, Contact, Reservation) The following is the response I received from the TCH Help Desk in regards to my issue: The mails that is generating from the php/cgi mail forms as "nobody@habs.tchmachines.com" - not with any other specific email. The auto responder is trying to send out to this mail account nobody@habs.tchmachines.com and it will not work Please see the mail logs of a mail that is generated from Contact form 2009-01-18 21:51:11 1LOkEJ-000679-2J <= nobody@habs.tchmachines.com U=nobody P=local S=640 2009-01-18 21:51:11 no host name found for IP address 118.175.22.202 2009-01-18 21:51:11 1LOkEJ-000679-2J => reservation <****@lafamiglia.com> R=virtual_user T=virtual_userdelivery 2009-01-18 21:51:11 1LOkEJ-000679-2J => webmaster <****@lafamiglia.com> R=virtual_user T=v There is upgraded version of mail script available that will generate mails as a real user than "nobody" - then you can set auto responder for that. I'm not really sure how to get this to work or how to upgrade the script. Anybody have any ideas? Here is the PHP script that I am using: <?php $search = array('&', 'ñ', 'Ñ', 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'Á', 'É', 'Í', 'Ó', 'Ú'); $replace = array('&', 'ñ', 'Ñ', 'á', 'é', 'í', 'ó', 'ú', 'Á', 'É', 'Í', 'Ó', 'Ú'); $fecha = date("D-M-y H:i"); $mymail = "****@lafamiglia.com, ****@lafamiglia.com"; $subject = "Website Comment"; $contenido = "Name: ".$_POST["name"]."\n"; $contenido .= "Email: ".$_POST["email"]."\n\n"; $contenido .= "Comment: ".$_POST["comment"]."\n\n"; $contenido .= "The message was wrote ".$fecha; $contenido = str_replace($search, $replace, $contenido); $header = "From:".$_POST["name"]."\nReply-To:".$_POST["email"]."\n"; $header .= "X-Mailer:PHP/".phpversion()."\n"; $header .= "Mime-Version: 1.0\n"; $header .= "Content-Type: text/plain"; mail($mymail, $subject, utf8_decode($contenido) ,$header); echo "&estatus=ok&"; ?>

Possibly but unlikely since I employed a mangle script over two years ago. Perhaps it's from a post from a job listing site or something like that...

Thanks for the responses. Yes, I'm sure it's a spoof. I'm running Mac OS X and doubt they're being sent from my machine but from somewhere else. I guess the consensus is that there's nothing I can do to prevent it.

One of my Web site's addresses has been hijacked by a spammer. I keep receiving countless bounce back e-mails from invalid addresses. Anything I can do to stop this assault? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thanks for the response Jim. I found this article last night, http://www.elixirsystems.com/seo_tips/avoi...ent-penalty.php They recommend using an online app, http://www.copyscape.com/ to see who's stealing content. It works gloriously. After running copyscape, I noticed that there is a lot of my site's content that hasb been indeed hijacked. Looks like I need to rewrite my content as there are too many sites that have hijacked content from several pages from within my site.

My client's restaurant site has been hit hard by the bourbon update and has yet to return to the very high rankings that it's had for the past five years. We were number one on Google for several different key phrases for Philadelphia Restaurants. We still hold the top positions for the same phrases on MSN and Yahoo. Google crawls our home page every day but only crawls the rest of the site on a monthly basis as the site content does not change that often. I've already submitted a reinclusion request to Google but have yet to hear back. Not sure if it was necessary since we're still in the index. I've added a permanent 301 redirect, absolute links, removed all duplicate content. As I was reviewing the site, I discovered a few things that seem strange. FYI: The site 1. Google indexed back in January, some pages that do not exist on my site' server. eg. http://www.lafamiglia.com/Awards.html?PHPS...235fb95b2021529 There a handfull of these dyanamic URLs that are still showing up in the index. Any idea where they came from? I have two valid PHP pages on my site that ask the user to reserve a table or send in a comment. They contain an image verifier script via a formmail.php file that I downloaded from tectite.com. 2. I have noticed that there are countless restaurant/wine related Web site directories that have hijacked a lot of my site's content/wine list/menus, and posted on their own site (which, in turn, back link to our site). Could this duplicate content on these other Web sites be a contributing factor in my site's severe loss in page ranking? Thanks for any assistance.

Thanks. I think that worked.

I've just added a favicon.ico to a client web site, it works when I enter the address without the www but when the www is entered the favicon disappears from the address bar any idea how to remedy this? This is a problem since google indexes the site's pages with the www present in the OPR. It happens on any browser (IE, NETSCAPE, FIREFOX, SAFARI...etc) http://lafamiglia.com/ <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" /> I tried adding the full path of the .ico to no avail (see below). When I do this the favicon disappears completely regardless of how the address is keyed into the browser. <link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://www.lafamiglia.com/favicon.ico" />

Upon receipt of the formmail (after user submits form) the E-mail contains all of the form data except the type="checkbox" values do not appear. Example, one of the questions is as follows: What do you remember most about your meal? input name="Likes_dislikes" type="checkbox" id="Main Course" value="Liked Main Course"> Main Course input name="Likes_dislikes" type="checkbox" id="Service" value="Liked Service">Service Please review the source: http://lafamiglia.com/Comments.php For some reason, if a user checks the both "Main Course" box and the "Service" box (or any of the other check boxes) when the formmail data in received is shows only the following: Likes_dislikes: If other please specify Any idea as to why it fails to show the data as checked?

After successfully (so I thought) creating and testing the following forms I am now experiencing intermittent success with the formmail. http://lafamiglia.com/Comments.php http://lafamiglia.com/Rerservations.php Sometimes it verifies the verifier image (and sends the form data and auto responder) and other times it will not (regardless of what form out of the two I have generated are submitted). There are two different script errors that are sent to my DEF_ALERT address: The following error occurred in FormMail: ar_verify Error=Your entry did not match the image or The following error occurred in FormMail: verify_failed ********** Error=Failed to obtain authorization to send you email I also receive the same browser errors as before: An error occurred while processing the form Your entry did not match the image Your form submission was processed by formmail.php (3.00), available from www.tectite.com I'm thinking that it may be caching or server problems (out of disk space, buggy version of the web server software, old PHP installation,....). Anybody have any ideas? On a different note: Another strange phenomenon occurs when the submitter uses a yahoo address. The FROM_USER defined in the formmail.php which I have set to "La Famiglia Ristorante staff" truncates/changes to "La@yahoo.com" If another E-mail provider is used it works fine.

My formmail php file has a remedy for those spambots that crawl sites for E-mail addresses. It allows for the E-mail addresses to be mangled in the form code and demangled in the php. I don't know if this is the most effective solution but it appears to make sense.

Thanks for the response. I think I have a cure for that already.

Woesap, Thanks for the info and for looking into it. I'll give that a try. I'm not certain how my list of E-mail addresses are still vulnerable?

I've installed a FORMMAIL that I dowloaded from http://www.tectite.com/formmailpage.php Initially, I installed an auto responder on my TCH account server which works great when sending E-mails outside of the form from the same or different domain. But when I specified a form E-mail to be sent to the autoresponder address (in order to receive an automated confirmation response) after the form was submitted the server failed to send an auto response but the form did send the E-mail to that autoresponder address. My guess is that server won't allow E-mails sent via forms to be autoresponded via the same server as the domain. So I decided to add a form script that sends the auto responder E-mail from the form itself. I've got the form working perfectly except for the auto response. Here is the link below: http://www.lafamiglia.com/Reservations3.html Anyone have any ideas why this won't send the auto response? Spam assassin possibly or maybe a mail filter? Thanks for your assistance.

Regarding the SPAM box feature. Can the SPAM box be set to purge periodically or does it do this automatically without having to sign in to the CPANEL and do it manually? I would prefer not to have to log in everyday and delete them since my client's web site receives numerous junk emails daily. Thanks for your assistances. tramadius