Verifying reg and Users Awaiting Email Confirm

[RMM]

I have two problems that I have spent a while searching the board for answers:

1. I recently found out that I have a large number of users in the "Users Awaiting Confirmation Emails" group. They don't show up when I go through the search users --> "Users Awaiting Comfirmation Emails" but they show up when I look at this group in the group management section

Even More Important

2. Is there a tool within vBulletin or a third-party tool that will quickly and correctly validate accounts/ip addresses, email names, etc? It seems as if I'm beginning to get quite a few spammers/bouncers/trolls coming through. Now upon finding out I have so many people in the ...confirmation email group it will take me forever to do it with Whois, which is the only outside tool I know of to use.

Could somone please provide some advice, suggestions or pointers to a good toolset? I've already posted at vbulletin.com board.

Thank you.

[RMM]

Have I posted my questions in the wrong area or something?

[SaN-DeeP]

Hi RMM,
I know my personal experience how annoying it is to see registrations going for a toss in that usergroup but you cannot do anything about the same.
If those users are spammers, its god that they are caught @ very first end and you can delete them, after lets say 10-15 days.
If your users use yahoo or hotmail as there email ids, It is a problem with there filters which blocks emails from your forums (you can personally do nothing with this issue, as it is faced by many boards today) You can instead display a special customized message for those users on top of your forums using logicians - forum accouncement hack.
You can send new pms to users, and add this message to there pms too. there is a hack from rob_daemon send pm to new users.

There are multiple ways you have to tackle down this problems yourself.

Vbulletin itself tries to send email reminders to this users twice.

Hope those things help you a bit.

Regards,
Sandy...

[RMM]

Many thanks!