BCC on Contact the Owner

[HorseOptions]

Is there a way to add an email address to be blind copied on the Contact the Owner form? I would want this bcc email address to go to our main email address. I think we're starting to have spammers contact sellers on our site and I would like to get feel for if this is the case? If this is possible, how would I set this up?

Thanks!

(We are using version 4.0.9, hosted edition)

[seymourjames]

I am sure there is a way but you will be receiving private email without the sender or the receiver knowing.

In some countries or states that may be perceived as dubious behavior even if it is legal to do so. The best way to control spammers is to use captchas although these are not fullproof.

[HorseOptions]

I totally get that. I don't care if it's CC or how it's done...just so Admin gets a copy of it. If this does get set up, I do plan on placing a disclaimer notifying the seller and the person submitting the email that the Administrator of the site will be copied in an effort to control spam.

I did recently start the Captcha feature, but I suspect there are still spam emails being sent...primarily because I got a spam email to one of my own ads. I plan on purchasing the spam module and installing that, but that's not going to stop the individuals who use a proxy server through, let's say, the US. It's then that I'll need the IP addresses and my hope is by keeping a "pulse" on the emails being sent, I can stop a spammer in his tracks after only 1 or 2 emails and not giving him a chance to go through our whole website....

[Eric Barnes]

I think you can do it one of two ways. Here is the first:
BCC:admin

The second:
Open includes/classes/kernel/Mailer.php and find:
$this->AddAddress($to);
just below it add:
$this->AddBCC("[email protected]");

This method will bcc any emails from the system.

[Eric Barnes]

Keep in mind what David posted though. You may want to add this to your terms of use or something like that.

[Mike-N-Tosh]

If this is a common issue on your site, you may want to consider requiring registration to contact the owner.

I require registration to contact the owner. In addition, I state this in my terms and in an FAQ page. I have also added a statement that checks to see if you are logged in and if you are NOT logged in it displays a message at the top that states, "Welcome Guest, feel free to browse our listings, you will need to register and log in to Contact the seller of a listing." I also added a statement within the "Contact Owner" email that is sent out that says that we hate spammers as much as you do, if this message is SPAM please report this to us so that we can take appropriate measures. To report this message as SPAM, please send it to [email protected] and please include the message in it's entirety (including headers if possible)."

[HorseOptions]

Very good ideas and suggestions. Thanks!!!!!

[hel68c]

Hi Eric,

I Used this code

$this->AddBCC("[email protected]");

but it only send email to BCC. It is normal?

I would like to send a copy to the admin to check spam.

[Lhotch]

Originally Posted by hel68c

Hi Eric,

I Used this code

$this->AddBCC("[email protected]");

but it only send email to BCC. It is normal?

I would like to send a copy to the admin to check spam.

you didnt remove any lines did you? AddBCC gets ADDED to the file so there should be

$this->AddAddress($to);
AND
$this->AddBCC("[email protected]");

[hel68c]

I only add the line like below:

function sendMail($to, $content, $vars)
{
global $Core, $class_tpl;


$this->AddAddress($to);
$this->AddBCC("[email protected]");

if(!empty($vars['fromemail'])){
$this->From=$vars['fromemail'];
}if(!empty($vars['name'])) {
$this->FromName=$vars['name'];
}
foreach($vars as $key => $value)
{
//loop through the results and assign to the template
$class_tpl->assign($key, safeStripSlashes($value));
}
if($Core->settings['mailHTML']=="Y")
{
$this->AltBody = $class_tpl->fetch('emails/text/'.$content);
$this->Body = $class_tpl->fetch('emails/html/'.$content);
$this->IsHTML(TRUE);
}
else
{
$this->Body = $class_tpl->fetch('emails/text/'.$content);
$this->IsHTML(FALSE);
}
$this->Subject = $class_tpl->get_template_vars('subject');

if($this->Send())
{
$this->ClearAllRecipients();
return TRUE;
}
else
{
return "Message was not sent <br />Mailer Error: " . $this->ErrorInfo;
}
}
}