Easymail Help

[dagaffer]

Hey, I think whammy should be able to help with this.
I'm using the Easymail script from solidscripts.com but theres some people out there that are repeatedly sending me annoying messages so I was wondering if I could make a page that the form could go to 1st where it checks the e-mail addresses &/or names, if it's one of his then he can be taken to a different page & like.... given a cookie which would block him from sending another...? (Also I have other uses for this page but this is the inital use...)

Any help?:thumbsup:

[whammy]

Email me the IP Addresses (just forward the messages, along with your username) and I will block them from using the service... ;)


Even better... I added a bit of functionality so you can ban IP addresses from using the form. Just add two additional hidden fields to your form...

<input type="hidden" name="BannedLink" value="http://www.yoursite.com/banned.htm" />

<input type="hidden" name="BannedIPS" value="12.34.56.789,23.45.67.890" />

Note that the ip addresses must be comma separated if you use more than one.

Now, if someone from the offending ip address tries to use the form mail, it will redirect them to the link you put in the "BannedLink" field.

[dagaffer]

Thanx whammy, il do that now:thumbsup:

[whammy]

P.S. You may want to forward me the offending ip's too, since you can get around this with .js if you're clever. ;)

[dagaffer]

:thumbsup: If I'm bugged again I'll do that, but for now I think I'm cool:p

[aCcodeMonkey]

dagaffer,
The easiest and most effective way I found to stop spammers was to contact my ISP and have the offending IP's added to their Proxy firewalls filter.
You can also check the routing to see who their ISP is. Lycos is very good at closing spammers.
p.s.
Smart WhoIs (http://www.swhois.com/) is a wonderfull tool for tracking down the offenders as well...

:thumbsup:

[dagaffer]

I'm now interested on how to find out someone's isp. How would I do that?
Thanx:thumbsup:

[aCcodeMonkey]

First step is to take the logged ip address and do a trace route with it.

I'm using Googles IP for the sample

e.g. tracert 216.239.36.10

Returned Info
E:\inetPub\25ec098\TestWeb1>tracert 216.239.36.10

Tracing route to ns3.google.com [216.239.36.10]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 251 ms 239 ms 239 ms rt-ntctk02.proxy.aol.com [198.81.21.91]
2 201 ms 239 ms 219 ms wc1-ntc-G5-1-2.proxy.aol.com [198.81.21.123]
3 214 ms 209 ms 239 ms 66.185.142.117
4 202 ms 239 ms 209 ms 66.185.142.112

If you notice it resolved the IP to a Domain Name.
You can go toARIN WHOIS (http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl) and look up by the IP or the resolved Domain Name

The WHOIS DB list the comapny or individual that own's that IP or Range of IP Addresses. If the IP itself does not resolve, change the last octet to "0" most ISP's are provided a class "C" address range.

Smart Whois and InterNic can provide additional information for POCs for domain.

<-- singing to self... Hacking thru the holes....