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  • March 20, 2018 at 7:16 am in reply to: Spammers hammering me #80525
    miwo
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    Blocking the IP adress wouldn't be an option. I selected all entries from today - all from the spammers and all come from different IPs: http://www.it-freelancer-magazin.de/wp-content/uploads/2018-03-20-07_12_02-IT-Freelancer-Magazin_db12908265-ifm_wp_newsletter_-HeidiSQL-9.3.0.4984.png

    I think Captchas are the only and obvious solution to this. My hoster also give me that advice.

    March 16, 2018 at 8:49 am in reply to: Spammers hammering me #79572
    miwo
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    Same happened to me - before I came to this forum I thought it was a personal attack to my homepage. Now I'm a bit calmed 🙂 Looked in the 'Newsletter Plugin' MySQL Table, I mentioned, that the first attack was at 2018-03-13 23:03:45

    As I investigated in that issue, I found, that besides the inconvinience, there's a severe risk of our IP/Domain being blacklisted at SPAMHAUS. The only solution seems to me to include a captcha in the subscription process: https://blog.goolara.com/2016/12/21/defusing-subscription-bombs/

    Because of the blacklist-risk, I have to change the automatic subscription form into a message to my potential readers: "Due to technical issues, we were forced to temporarily close automatic subscription to our newsletter service. Please send an email to me (xy@mydomain.de) and I will subscibe you to our newsletter personally." But this is of course no longterm-solution. Is there any chance to get the Captcha-feature in the near future?

    Yours Michael

    February 4, 2018 at 5:48 pm in reply to: PHP-Snippet for Statistics: # of linkclicks compared to # of emails sent #70391
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    August 8, 2017 at 4:24 pm in reply to: Internal server error 500 #40789
    miwo
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    The solution in my case was to migrate from Windows tu Linux. After that all problems were solved.

    March 16, 2017 at 6:03 am in reply to: Internal server error 500 #30994
    miwo
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    the status panel link leads to http://www.it-freelancer-magazin.de/wp-admin/admin.php?page=newsletter_main_status which also gives the internal server error.

    It's funny. When I activate debug mode in wp-config.php with:
    define('WP_DEBUG', true);
    define( 'WP_DEBUG_LOG', true );

    the above error doesn't persist any more.
    But anyhow I found two warnings in the log:

    [16-Mar-2017 04:59:02 UTC] PHP Warning: is_file(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\site5/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/emails/themes/composer.gif/theme.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (C:/Inetpub/vhosts/wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\;C:\Windows\Temp\) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\site5\wp-content\plugins\newsletter\includes\themes.php on line 114
    [16-Mar-2017 05:00:14 UTC] PHP Warning: is_file(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(C:\Inetpub\vhosts\wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\site5/wp-content/plugins/newsletter/emails/themes/composer.gif/theme.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (C:/Inetpub/vhosts/wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\;C:\Windows\Temp\) in C:\Inetpub\vhosts\wvps83-169-10-28.dedicated.hosteurope.de\site5\wp-content\plugins\newsletter\includes\themes.php on line 114

    Do you know what's wrong with it now?

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