Quickie on how to block a specific email

[JackGoa]

Hey guys. Long time no see.

Once in a while I get annoying emails from my "fans in the 'stans".

I have the obvious and usual spam checks in place, including reCaptcha.

I think these ones are submitted manually, unless it's a really clever bot.

Seeing as it barely ever happens and it's usually the same email address that will go on for weeks,
I've been thinking of a simple way to block them without them knowing, like a "soft fail" or something.

If I had to make use of the conditional field in the Email Form Plugin and I did something like below, would that stop the email from sending? I know it will still save in the database and I don't really care too much about that as the duplicates will eventually get filtered out any way.

*this does not happen often, I'm ok with manually adding more emails to the array when they show signs of getting a bit over excited.

$knownSpammers = array('foo@spam.com', 'foobar@spambar.com');

if (in_array({tablename___elementname_raw}, $knownSpammers) {
return false;
}

Is there maybe a better way I might be missing? Fabrik does not look at the Contact form rules in J!'s Contact component hey?

 

[lousyfool]

Well, you can test your code with one of your own email addresses, obviously.

However, I find the easiest and most effective ways outside of Fabrik:
- Probably your mail server has tools such as SpamAssassin or SpamExperts where you can blacklist email addresses.
- If not (against all odds), your server's webmail will probably let you blacklist email addresses, effectively preventing them from hitting your inbox.
- If that not either (??!!), then you email client should let you set a filter rule that sends certain email senders straight to the trash bin.

 

[JackGoa]

Thanks for pointing out the obvious.

Anyone else?

 

[JackGoa]

FYI, mail is sent via SMTP, i.e., a legit email address.

 

[troester]

Well, you can test your code with one of your own email addresses, obviously.

Did you? Your code looks ok (beside of missing quotes around the placeholder).

 

[JackGoa]

Hey @troester, hope you're well.

Thanks, I always forget the placeholder is not variable.

I haven't tested it, I'm assuming it's probably going to work. My question really was whether anyone might know of a better, more elegant solution? In retrospect, could have probably phrased it better.