note 61497 added to ref.mail

We have finally found the way to stop mail spam, that is beeing sent through unsecure mail forms on our servers. This is server-wide solution. Of course, this is not ideal solution, but we are hosting company with hundreds of websites on each server and that's why it is impossible to check them all. We were looking for a global solution and here it is. There are disadvantages, but it is better than nothing. Thanks to "appel att nr78 dott net", as I use his function as a base. This really works and just a few steps required: 1. Put PHP code below to some file (e.g. anti_spam.php) and save it to some place, that is accessible by all websites. On our servers I place it in /usr/local/lib/php/anti_spam.php 2. In php.ini set these 2 variables: auto_prepend_file = /usr/local/lib/php/anti_spam.php safe_mode_include_dir = /usr/local/lib/php Yes, it will include anti_spam.php in every php file and do check. It could mess some websites, who are posting these values, but then you can make some workaround for them. 3. The code. <?php function _local_replace_bad($value) { # mail adress(ess) for reports... $report_to = "anti-spam@yourdomain.com"; # array holding strings to check, we do not trust these strings in $_POST $suspicious_str = array ( "content-type:" ,"charset=" ,"mime-version:" ,"multipart/mixed" ,"bcc:" ); $suspect_found = false; // remove added slashes from $value... $value = stripslashes($value); # checks if $value contains $suspect... foreach($suspicious_str as $suspect) { if(eregi($suspect, strtolower($value))) { # if we found some suspicios string, then we add our string, so it # will be messed a little bit. :) $suspect_found = true; $value = eregi_replace($suspect, "(anti-spam-".$suspect.")", $value); } } if ($suspect_found) { # if at least one suspicios string was found, then do something more $ip = (empty($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])) ? 'empty' : $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; $rf = (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'])) ? 'empty' : $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; $ua = (empty($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'])) ? 'empty' : $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']; $ru = (empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])) ? 'empty' : $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; $rm = (empty($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'])) ? 'empty' : $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']; # very often HTTP_USER_AGENT is empty. We consider this is 100% spam if ($suspect_found && $ua == "empty") { exit(); } # if we are here, then HTTP_USER_AGENT is not empty. this is only 80-90% that it is spam # Remember, that POST values were already changed. But we still want to inform our # admin about this suspicios request. if(isset($report_to) && !empty($report_to)) { @mail( $report_to, "[ABUSE] [SUSPECT] @ " . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . " by " . $ip, "Stopped possible mail-injection @ " . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . " by " . $ip . " (" . date('d/m/Y H:i:s') . ")\r\n\r\n" . "*** IP/HOST\r\n" . $ip . "\r\n\r\n" . "*** USER AGENT\r\n" . $ua . "\r\n\r\n" . "*** REFERER\r\n" . $rf . "\r\n\r\n" . "*** REQUEST URI\r\n" . $ru . "\r\n\r\n" . "*** REQUEST METHOD\r\n" . $rm . "\r\n\r\n" . "*** SUSPECT\r\n-----\r\n" . $value . "\r\n-----" ); } # if report } # if suscpect found return($value); } # what we do - is we simply check all posted values. foreach($_POST as $f=>$v) { $_POST[$f] = _local_replace_bad($v); } # if register_globals is set to "on", then we should overwrite them once again. if (ini_get("register_globals") == 1) extract($_POST, EXTR_OVERWRITE); ?> ---- Server IP: 81.94.227.69 Probable Submitter: 86.57.15.202 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+61497 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+61497&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+61497&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php