Email Functionality for a Public Website

A public website provides a list of employees to online visitors. Contact information is hidden, but the visitor can send an e-mail through a pop-up letter form.

What do you think about the activity of automatic scripts / viruses / bot spam? Is Capture mandatory for this feature and what precautions can you offer?

Thank you in advance

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Perhaps you should consider some basic obfuscations: use non-standard names for form fields (for example, do not just use the "subject", "send", etc.). The less your form resembles the standard email submission form, the less likely the standard scripts will work on it. Of course, this will not stop a certain spammer. You can also prevent search engines from indexing your email sending page to make it harder to find spammers in the first place.

I would also say that captcha (or recaptcha) is very important.

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A CAPTCHA is probably a good idea - just to avoid messages from dumb bots exploring your form. Without this, your users are likely to get a bunch of annoying messages.

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