I am having a lot of spam errors in my wp smtp today from a bot that click “save and continue later” in several forms and add the non existing testing@examole.com email.
We have connected our outlook account to wp smtp and outlook is trying to send the notification email to that email giving errors every time.
This has been happening from midnight to midday every half an hour. Very upsetting.
I tried to solve the problem adding this conditional logic to the notification email for “save and continue” in all the forms:
The email address entered in the save and continue confirmations send link form is validated by WordPress, specifically using the is_email function, which out of the box only checks that the value meets some basic format requirements for an email address.
To answer your question about the notification conditional logic, yes, that would prevent sending of the email for that specific address, but only if they also entered it in the email field on the main form. The email input on the send link form is not available to conditional logic.
This definitely seems like a valid use case for needing access to the send link form email input.
Like Richard mentioned, it isn’t possible yet to use that email input in conditional logic, but I’ll get this in today as a feature request for GP Advanced Save and Continue.
It appears like you already have a license with us, so I’ll be following up directly via Support.
It would be very good to have a filter for bots when they click save and continue later.
People that develop bots have found a way of sending hundreds of request using this method and filling the datebase and errors logs of the website. Arrggg!
Hope you can find an answer for this.
Thank in advance,
Gabriela
Note: yes, we have a licence, but I wanted to publish it here so other people with the same problem can see it here too and maybe find a solution or at least, be aware of these bots attacking the forms.