Spam Update

After I installed Kitten’s Spaminator, not a single spam comment has gone through. Several normal comments have been posted with no problems.

I’ve set Spaminator to send email to me for every spam killed, so if it accidentally kills a legal comment, I could repost it. I soon learned that this approach has one problem: I need to go through all the emails by hand and sometimes this is quite daunting task.

Spaminator sets the following subject for all mails:

[Blogname] Spaminator: Spammer caught!

I fixed the PHP code to include other information to make it easier to delete all repeating messages:

[Blogname: SPAM] sender <email> URL

For example:

[Nomadig: SPAM] Mr Foo Bar <foo@example.com> http://www.example.com/

This is accomplished by changing the value of variable $to on line 146 to following:

$to = '[' . get_settings('blogname') . ': SPAM]' .
      $this->post['author'] . ' <' . $this->post['email'] . '>, ' .
      $this->post['url'];