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Parture · #34 09-15-2010, 08:26 PM

A month or two ago I had no problem, but after my forums were hacked into about a month ago, whenever a search bot or someone tried to access one of my forum pages (all my forum pages were down), it sent an email out to either gmail or yahoo to explain the error. Now that my forums are up and running again with a new host, I noticed that the verification email is not received for those who register with a Yahoo email or Gmail. But it is received by Hotmail.

So how do I solve this? For one I put a message in Notices for those who did not receive a verification email, saying a verification email is not received for Yahoo and Gmail because they must have my site on a blacklist. I don't do bulk emailings, so I am guessing why this happened was there was probably over 100,000 error reports sent out the past month when my forums were down so that is what created the blacklist.

Help.

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