Botbouncer

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description: The plugin checks subscription emails for spam using the Botbouncer class https://github.com/michield/botbouncer.
author : Duncan Cameron
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lastupdate : 2022-06-23
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tags : spam

downloadurl: https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-botbouncer/archive/master.zip

The plugin checks subscription emails and IP addresses for spam using the Botbouncer class https://github.com/michield/botbouncer.

It currently supports any combination of the following services:

• Stop Forum Spam (no registration required, enabled by default)
• Akismet (free for personal use, commercial use paid)
• Project Honeypot (free registration required)
• Mollom (service ended)
• IP Intel (no registration required, limit 500 IPs/day)

The recommended way to install is through the Plugins page (menu Config > Manage plugins) using the package URL https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-botbouncer/archive/master.zip

Then enable the plugin.

On the Settings page there is a Bot bouncer settings group where you can specify:

• The message to be displayed to the subscriber when the subscription attempt is rejected
• Whether to write a record to the event log for each failed subscription attempt (Yes).
• Whether to send an email to the admin for each failed subscription attempt (No).
• Whether to validate email addresses submitted on a subscribe page (Yes).
• Whether to validate email addresses submitted on an asubscribe (AJAX) page (Yes).

You can control which services the Botbouncer class will use by setting these variables in the config.php file

• $honeyPotApiKey - Set to API key to enable Project Honey Pot
• $akismetApiKey
• $akismetBlogURL
• $mollomPrivateKey
• $mollomPublicKey
• $ipIntelContact - IP Intel requires an admin contact e-mail address (but no registration)
• $sfsEnabled - set to false to disable Stop Forum Spam check

Additionally you can set these variables which are used by the Botbouncer class

• $logRoot - Output various logs into this folder
• $memCachedServer - Reduce duplicate API lookups by caching results with memcached

See the Botbouncer repository for more information on how these settings are used.