Spam List: Block 261022 Registration Email Domains

This mod allows you to block users from registering when their email address domain is on a spam list. There are currently 261022 email address domains on the included spam lists. There is one list for every 0-9, a-z character plus one exemption list. However, there is no guarantee that every entry on a list is a true spam domain.

The lists were compiled by combining a personal list with various online sources, none of which disallows use in a mod such as this. Therefore, brought to you is this spam list mod. You can add or remove entries from the spam list files. If you add an entry, make sure to add it as a lowercase entry. The plugin takes care of the rest.

The various spam list files range is size from about 4.0kb to around 0.4mb so be sure that you have enough memory available before installing this mod. The mod calls in the exemption list and one spam list file, and unsets them as soon as possible to free memory. If an email address domain is on the exemption list, it is not blocked.

Should a user be blocked from registering at your forum, an email will be sent to your vB webmasteremail address and the user will see the vB banemail phrase message, so no screenshot of this mod is necessary. Everything is in alphabetical order so if you do not like the spam list files, just make your own set of files. Enjoy!

[Kihon Kata]

At a glance, it looks like an EXCELLENT update. I'll reinstall it soon.

[Kihon Kata]

Question, do we NOT use the spamlist.txt anymore? Just use the alphabetical/numerical one?

[calorie]

It's the same mod as before, except there are now 1033 more domians on the spam list and there is a spamlist_0_to_z.zip file available. The mod always was coded to send an email should a user be blocked from registering at your forum. The spamlist_0_to_z.zip file is to help you with making your own spamlist.txt file, if you don't want to use the one that is provided with the spamlist_product.zip file.

[CrazyTech]

Perhaps if we as users can help the creator out by reporting any legitimate email accounts as we come across them? This is a good mod from what I can see and the vast majority of what is there are spam emails. It's caught at least 12 bad registrations for me since I installed it a yesterday but it caught a couple good ones. I've updated the file to remove those which are already named here:

@yahoo.com
@gmail.com
@hotmail.com
@bellsouth.net

There are other ccTLD domains for those as well.

[Kihon Kata]

Great idea! I second those ones by adding

@AOL.com
@yahoo.com
@gmail.com
@hotmail.com
@bellsouth.net

[Greek76]

Great mod. I took hotmail, yahoo, aol and gmail off the list those are the email addresses that most of my users use including myself lol. Its simple to edit so this product is well worth it.

[Yorixz]

Well, I understand Gmail/Hotmail/AOL/Yahoo are on the list, I myself also get a lot of spam from these domains, sadly the majority of my users are using a free email, due to the average age (which should be around 15 on my forum), no doubt a nice mod, but I might use it later when I've got more time to check it out.

[calorie]

FYI: mod updated to v.1.0.1. It was changed to use one 0-9, a-z spam list plus one exemption list. The largest spam list file is now about 0.4mb instead of calling in the entire list. This was done so your server is happier with reading in the files, though if you want to remove entries, you now need to edit the 0-9, a-z spam list files. If you know of a domain that you don't want to block, you can add it to the do not block exemption list. Upgrade instructions are in the readme file.

[Kihon Kata]

Hi Calorie. Thanks for the update to 1.0.1. *Reinstalls.

Question: I noticed that all xxxx.rr.com emails are on the banned list. While I added some to the do_not_block.txt file, how can we allow ALL XXXXX.RR.COM emails?

[calorie]

Here are all the *.rr.com domains. Either remove them from the 0-9, a-z spamlist files or place them on the do not block exemption list.

@austin.rr.com
@bak.rr.com
@bham.rr.com
@bizwoh.rr.com
@ca.rr.com
@carolina.rr.com
@cfl.rr.com
@cinci.rr.com
@columbus.rr.com
@elp.rr.com
@gt.rr.com
@hawaii.rr.com
@houston.rr.com
@hvc.rr.com
@insight.rr.com
@jam.rr.com
@kc.rr.com
@maine.rr.com
@midsouth.rr.com
@mn.rr.com
@nc.rr.com
@neb.rr.com
@neo.rr.com
@nj.rr.com
@nyc.rr.com
@nycap.rr.com
@rgv.rr.com
@rochester.rr.com
@san.rr.com
@satx.rr.com
@sc.rr.com
@socal.rr.com
@sw.rr.com
@swfla.rr.com
@tampabay.rr.com
@triad.rr.com
@twcny.rr.com
@wi.rr.com
@woh.rr.com

I'm not sure whether or not I'll add a wildcard option, but if you have shell access, you can search for domains by using the following commands:

# this finds all domains where .domain.com is present
grep [.]domain[.]com spamlist_*.txt | more

# this finds all domains ending in domain.com
grep domain[.]com$ spamlist_*.txt | more

# this finds all domains starting with @domain.
grep ^@domain[.] spamlist_*.txt | more

Alternatively, you could use your PC to search the spamlist directory, at least to find the spamlist files containing the domain pattern of interest.