Detect Spam Mail address
- Started 9 years ago
- Last post 9 years ago
- 8 Responses
- SimonFFM
On my website every day people subscribe to get informed of my next book coming out. But most of the time the adresses are @gmail.com. I somehow get the feeling that these are robots/spammers.
Is there a way to detect if the address is real? I know, I could mail that person and ask (or do it automatically with opt-in) but is there maybe a site with blacklisted mail addresses or something?
- trooperbill1
you could honeypot (add a hidden field that spam bots fill in) so you know theyre spam and filter incoming emails moving known spam into the bin?
- formed1
^ I'd skip that, the "big" blacklists are fully of bs blocks (imho).
You can add one of those annoying little "write text to show us you aren't a bot"
or
You can have one of those annoying services that send them an email asking for verification (super annoying).
or
You could use a service that tests all the emails to be real (not that that would determine if it were spam, but it could).
Given the (beautiful) content of your book, it's not surprising people would use "gmail" accounts. I only use my gmail and yahoo emails for newsletters, never a business account (if they won't accept that, and some won't, then I move on and forget it - make it a pain and people won't subscribe).
- HAYZ1LLLA2
To save extra work and not lose potential leads just add them to your distribution list anyway if they are spam then no need to worry.
- detritus0
GMail has nearly 10% of the entire email market, and in my experience, a fuckload of independents use it.
- utopian0
Two viable options:
1. Add Captchas to your form
https://www.google.com/recaptcha…2. No Captchas to your form
http://nfriedly.com/techblog/200…
- BabySnakes0
Don't services like Mail Chimp and Constant Contact clean up your lists?
- meffid0
I've had it with Google. They encourage spam and sell UID's to crap like semalt. It's utter horse shit.
- SimonFFM0
thanks guys!
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