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)
If you have already installed the CAPTCHA plugin then you do not need this plugin because that plugin already includes (most of) this functionality.
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.
If the automatic installation does not work then you can install manually. Download the plugin zip file from https://github.com/bramley/phplist-plugin-botbouncer/archive/master.zip
Expand the zip file, then copy the contents of the plugins directory to your phplist plugins directory. This should contain
- the file BotBouncerPlugin.php
- the directory BotBouncerPlugin
Then enable the plugin.
For guidance on configuring and using the plugin see the plugin's page within the phplist documentation site https://resources.phplist.com/plugin/botbouncer
Go to Stop Forum Spam and select an email address from the Last 500 entries. Then try to subscribe to your lists using that email address.
Please raise any questions or problems in the user forum https://discuss.phplist.org/.
version Description
2.2.0+20220623 Allow validation to be disabled for subscribe or asubscribe pages
2.1.0+20220623 Update the botbouncer class. Now supports the IP Itel service.
2.0.6+20220310 Restore the unix query parameter to the stopforumspam URL
2.0.5+20220310 Ensure that the response from stopforumspam is serialised as expected. Closes #1
2.0.4+20200512 Update link to Stop Forum Spam
2.0.3+20200512 Belatedly update the botbouncer class
2.0.2+20200512 Allow plugin to be enabled only when captcha plugin is not enabled
2.0.1+20161014 Added dependencies
2013-11-03 Initial version for phplist 3