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Bow Walker

03-08-2013 05:32 PM

Banning email addresses

Hello to everyone,

How do I ban email addresses?!?

I have a long list of email addresses in the "User Banned Options" - such as *@sina.com - but I still get spammers trying to sign up using email addresses with variations ending in the above email suffixes.

Am I doing something wrong?

Lynne

03-08-2013 05:41 PM

You need to only enter @sina.com, not *@sina.com

Quote:

Banned Email Addresses
Email address ban lists: You may ban any email addresses from registering and posting. Type in the complete email address (user@example.com), or use a partial email address (as in @example.com).

Note that partial email addresses are matched from the end of the address unless you enable 'Aggressive Email Banning' below. Therefore if you ban @example.com you will ban user@example.com, but if you ban @example that user will not be banned. If you enable 'Aggressive Email Banning', user@example.com would be banned by @example.

If the email address of a user attempting to register or change their email address matches any of the addresses you specify here will see a no-permission error. For example, if you have banned 'example.com' then a user attempting to use 'someone@example.com' will be rejected.

Put a space between each email address or email address fragment.

Bow Walker

03-08-2013 05:51 PM

Thank you Lynne for your quick reply. I will go in and change them as suggested.

I have noticed a lot of email addresses listed in the format that I posted though. I was under the assumption that using the * before any email addies would automatically include all variations of that particular suffix.

Lynne

03-08-2013 05:54 PM

You don't need the wildcard. Read the quote I posted that is in the settings page.

Quote:

Note that partial email addresses are matched from the end of the address....

Bow Walker

03-08-2013 06:51 PM

Yes I understand about the wildcard.

Should I remove it from all the existing banned email addresses?

Lynne

03-09-2013 07:00 PM

Yes, remove it from all the ones you want to work.

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