How can you tell if a 'reply to' form is not secured?

[tweakthis]

Hi all,

My agency has a new website done by volunteer webmaster. Since the website went "live" about a month ago, there has been a marked increase in spam with the address originating from people who do not work at my agency. ie, xyz@myagency.com, or eek@myagency.com. I have it set up so any incorrectly address mail to @myagency.com is sent to the info@myagency.com account so that if someone incorrectly spells a name, the message still gets through. A lot of mail has been returned with a reply address as from unknownperson@myagency.com. Heaven only knows how many messages that do not espouse the beliefs and practices of my agency went through to legitimate addresses.

The root address links to @magma.ca. I contacted Magma and tech support suggested that there might be a "reply to" address that is not secure. There is a Volunteer Application form" which I interpret that to be the "reply to" suggested by Magma. The webmasters state that they only copied over the existing form (one of three that were at the old website), but do not guarentee that it is secure. How do I know for sure that the existing form is secure?

[Tim]

not sure about the spam, but you aren't the only one experiencing a large increase lately in spam. I've had 3 clients call in the last week requesting their mailto:'s be obscured in flash to prevent spambots from mining their email addresses

[Mouse]

Maybe a DDos attack to those sites paying for the spam???

[Bogie]

What do you mean by "secure"?

Windows or Linux email server?

PHPform or Sendmail?

As Tim mentioned, one way to "secure" an email addy is through Flash. Another is with an image of the email address, and other is a javascript link.

Even then, it looks like a typical domain blast - we are all getting them lately - no one is exempt in the digital battlefield.

All it takes is for one infected computer to put your email addy in it's address book, and whammo ... free pickin'.