[Bluemax712]

On a test 4.2 server I tried registering the user with email sarahsize537@hotmail.com
and SOM stopped it with a "registration denied" message
It doesn't have a key installed - so it does work/block without one (normally)

One thing to check is the first option for SOM
the GroupProtect IDs is this set for 5,6,7?
Edit: then again if it is still moderating posts but not preventing signups it's probably not this setting - nm


Could that user have registered on your forum before it was added to the SFS database?


You can try doing a test register of a bad email address yourself
-Since you don't want an email sent out for the test you can disable email temporarily on your server by adding this line to includes/config.php

define('DISABLE_MAIL', 1);

- Then pick an email address from the current SFS database and try registering with it to see if it is blocked
- and remember to remove line to re-enable email after done testing



Also if you have root on your server?
You could capture a tcpdump during the signup and should see some traffic to www.stopforumspam.com
with a "GET /api?email=xxx@xxx" and a "GET /api?ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" in it


Or this may be easier to try from shell window on your server (without needing root):

wget http://www.stopforumspam.com/api?ema...37@hotmail.com -O response.txt

and the reply back from SFS in the response.txt file should contain something like:

<response success="true">
	<type>email</type>
	<appears>yes</appears>
	<lastseen>2013-04-11 18:28:34</lastseen>
	<frequency>165</frequency>
</response>