Question for anyone who uses allstuffmailer.

Ok, for any of you who use allstuffmailer, do you sometimes get blank e-mails? Like someone went to your site and clicked 'send' without typing any info. I keep getting these and its frikkin annoying.

Well here's my deal man. I got this guy sending me emails and his logo shows up on my email even though I have images blocked. So the .gifs and .jpegs get blocked until I hit "show images"

But this guy's logo shows up anyway and when I right click it to save it gives a title of "ShowLetter".

Do you guys know how that works? How can you get images to bypass the image guard.

Now on to .02's question, as I was looking up something from the code of this guys' email to me with his logo, it has a code that goes something like this:

It's got the DIV's and all but under the image it has src=id or cdi in quotes. Then a bunch of numbers and the image size and more numbers then @aol and stuff.

When I looked it up at google it sent me to all kinds of sites with what .02 is asking about. I don't have an answer but I'm wondering if you guys know, and maybe you can answer both questions with one answer.

But I've heard of those blank emails going around and it has something to do with this code on there, because it won't show where it's hosted in an ordinary way.

hmmmm.........anyone?

You should never get those? It runs a routine to check for required fields before it sends the email.

I don't know if I get what you mean pank. For instance in my case, as stated above about the guy who emails me and has his logo show up, he's a guy who buys web banners off of me.

So do I just tell him to send it differently or do I just not open them or what? I mean what do you mean we should never get those? As in don't open them?

Any info would be great! Check ya out later.

Cheers!

His (02's) doesnt check for anything. I checked and clicked send with no info and it replied "thanks"....

how can I make it check for something?

Real basic validation:

you are going to have some form variables (in an array) like this:

[PHP]
$_POST['name'];
[/PHP]

So just check to see if they are blank:

[PHP]
if ( $_POST['name'] == ' ' ) {
// give some error message.
} # end if
[/PHP]


other possibilities:
[PHP]
$name = strip_tags(trim($_POST['name']));
[/PHP]

which removes any blank space (from the beginning and end) and also removes any html tags.

There is more you can do, like check to see if it's a valid type of email and slash out any ' -> ie ' becomes \' (I am forgetting the function name that does this....).... etc...