anti spam or captcha

You’re not going to be considered a Spam if you have the Sign up Confirmation activated, because these Spammers won’t be able to “activate” their Subscriptions.

Unfortunately we don’t have any “simple” solution for that. What you can do is using a Subscription Form created with Contact Form 7 and the Contact Form 7 add-on for MailPoet. With CF7 you can add a captcha to it. This is a creative way to solve this problem.

We’re sorry about this inconvenience.

This is too bad ??

Your MailPoet plugin is just perfect ! excepted this little lack of filtering.
Many of the “false emails” are injected by bots, so a simple and “nice looking” validation would be enough.

For example : “are you human ?” or “please clic on the fruit among the vegetables” would avoid all these falses emails.

Asking the users to implement something i.e. add another pluggin + a connector, is not an end-user-friendly solution. Well, I guess you know that.

Txh

@mailpoet

With respect, the reply misses a big issue, in my opinion – Yes, you can be considered as spam.

Example, Sign up Confirmation activated, an operator tries to poison the subscription list by subscribing multiple spoofed (or fake) email addresses. Naturally, the subscriptions fail (because Sign up Confirmation was activated). However, the IP address of the mailserver gets blacklisted as a result of backscatter.

Perhaps it’s prudent to revisit the CAPTCHA option (which can be an optional setting in this plugin)?

Yes, and still, I am constantly receiving alerts from my webhost saying: “outgoing mail error”.
Because mailpoet tries to contact false email addresses to confirm their subscription…

Hi all,

I got a bunch of spam sign-ups myself, as well as strange errors in my php error log which I now suspect were spam-related. I found this thread and decided that while the CF7 option could work, it’s easier to just integrate a CAPTCHA than to rebuild all my forms. (I’ve customized the html of my forms to be more accessible, so rebuilding them is more involved than just using MailPoet’s form builder.)

So I manually added Google’s reCAPTCHA to my MailPoet forms (which I was already displaying using the html code anyway, so it was easy). It seems to work great so far! We’ll see if the spam sign-ups stop or decrease over the next few days…

I’m sure anyone who’s using the html code to display their forms can figure out at least the basic reCAPTCHA implementation (the automatic configuration, which only works with one form per page).

But ultimately, since this was so easy to accomplish, I really think @mailpoet should reconsider its stance on this issue, because the solution I’ve offered only helps a portion of plugin users… Thanks!

Hi Julie, how do you add your Recaptcha, in your mailPoet form ? I need help, if you’ve got time for me, it’s will greaaaaaaat ??

Salut Martin! Sure, I’ll do my best. I’ve only been able to get the automatic implementation working so far…

General Steps:

1) Go to your MailPoet Forms page, find the form to which you want to add the reCAPTCHA (you can do it to more than one form if they’re not displayed on the same page), and click Edit. Scroll to the bottom and click on the html link to reveal the html code for your form. Copy and paste where you want to display your form, removing the shortcode or widget you were (maybe?) using before.

2) I can’t help but mention this here since it’s a pet peeve of mine with form builders like MailPoet… If you weren’t already using an html form, then you’ll likely want to add the correct markup to the form to make it accessible. Details: WebAIM & W3. I also really like this article, which is about CF7 but still very handy, especially since it’s in plain English, unlike the other two links ??

3) Sorry about that, I couldn’t help it… Back on track! So next, either sign up or sign in to your Google reCAPTCHA account, and locate your site key. Keep it handy while you finish up with your form.

4) Here are Google’s instructions for displaying the reCAPTCHA. In a nutshell, you need to place this code just before the “submit” input:

<div class="g-recaptcha" data-sitekey="your_site_key"></div>

Notice that’s where you’ll be putting in your site key.

5) Then you need to add this to the head section in header.php:

<script src="https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js" async defer></script>

That’s it! It should work ?? I got it to work on two forms.

Now I need to use the explicit rendering code, but I haven’t been able to figure that out yet… If anyone has any advice about how to do that, please chime in!

@martinbouillaud — were you able to get this working?

Has anyone tried out the solution I offered? If so, there’s a critical step missing from the instructions above — server-side validation of the captcha. So far I haven’t been able to figure out how to integrate the validation code with MailPoet. So that’s the tricky part! If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

It’s too bad they don’t supply this feature. I am so tired of wasting time downloading plugins, getting api keys, and finding many plugins do not work.

Seriously, no captcha built into mailpoet? Amazon ses just threatened to close my account because of form spam bot causing thousands of bounce emails from invalid address being input into mailpoet form. A simple captcha would solve this. Mailpoet, come on guys, implement it, seriously. Contact form 7 workaround provided is lazy. Great plugin otherwise, however, it might be time for me to move on to aweber or mailchimp.

I agree with the previous comments, please a captcha thaaaaanks!!

This is our official stance on this subject: https://www.mailpoet.com/you-dont-need-captcha-on-email-signup/