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• 6 posts
• 3 voices
• Started 4 years ago by Ryan
• Latest reply from Sam Bauers
• This topic is not resolved

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• email
• register
• spam

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Blocking registrations by email

1. • 
   • Ryan
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   The first two user registrations I've had on my new forum are both using @mail.ru email addresses. Experience with other forums tells me these are probably spam registrations. On the SMF forums I admin I block @mail.ru email addresses from being able to register at all. Is there a way to do this in bbPress? Maybe have them default to Inactive or Blocked depending on the email address used?
2. • 
   • _ck_
   • Moderator

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   This is the plugin to do exactly what you want:
   http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/restrict-registration-for-bbpress/#post-173

   You might also want to add my "Human Text" plugin to help stop bot (automated) registrations:
   http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test
3. • 
   • Ryan
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Perfect. Thank you.

   Just to make sure I've got it setup right. I've checked the Enable checkbox on top and added *mail.ru in the blacklist box. Whitelist box is empty. Sound correct?
4. • 
   • Sam Bauers
   • Key Master

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   You should make that:

   *.mail.ru
5. • 
   • Ryan
   • Member

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   By adding the period wouldn't that only block stuff from @123.mail.ru, @whateverelse.mail.ru, etc. and not @mail.ru? It's the @mail.ru that seems to be the problem and not subdomains of mail.ru.
6. • 
   • Sam Bauers
   • Key Master

   • Posted 4 years ago #

   Ah, in that case all you need to put there is mail.ru without the asterisk or leading dot.

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