Anti-Spam Options - Verify Email Before Registration

Tested and working in vb 4.2.3

Product Description:

Verify Mail before registration , and during update profile information (changing mail for members from usercp)

This Product:

Stop spam at the first order, it works to prevent the registration with anonymous mails, in order to ensure Forum mail arrives (Newsletters - Subscriptions - Contact members .. etc.), to emails properly and effectively.

no member will be registered , or admitted to the database (both in group waiting activation or any other group), unless the mail is true. As if there was not a failed attempt to register.

What are the anonymous mails?


Are the emails that can not access by its owner, and browsed. Whether it was a mail already exists (used by another person), or not.

As long as no member can or the new Registrar (who wrote this mail), access to the inbox in the mail will be an anonymous mail, and reject his request.


Installation:

Just Import The product from AdminCP.

The product Will begin work as soon as the product installed.

You can manage the product settings from AdminCP > Settings > Options > Verify Mail before registration.

Enjoy

Big thanks to ForceHSS for his help with ironing out the spelling issues


To update, just import via Products in admincp, tick overwrite

PLEASE UPDATE

Last version had SQL issue, this is fixed now in this version

IMPORTANT

If you running Rename register.php by BOP5 you need to edit 2 templates

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=297834

1st search in languages for

$vboptions[bburl]/register.php?so=1&emailcode=$emailcode

Edit register.php to what you renamed as and save

2nd edit in template : reg_ver_start

<form id="registerform" action="register.php" name="register" method="post">

again look for register.php and change to what you renamed

After that all should be good

Note : CSS / FOOTER FIXED !!!

Mobile Theme Fix HERE

[LgsOfChampions]

I really want to use this mod, I get this when I use it. Is there a way to fix this or should i delete it?

[ForceHSS]

Originally Posted by LgsOfChampions

I really want to use this mod, I get this when I use it. Is there a way to fix this or should i delete it?

If you are talking about the example link thing on the footer thats from a custom mod and you would need to ask in that mod how to hide it in that page

[da_judge]

Originally Posted by LgsOfChampions

I really want to use this mod, I get this when I use it. Is there a way to fix this or should i delete it?

You have CSS issue there... must be using custom css somewhere...

i updated it a while back to work with most default CSS... pm me your skype i will try help you

[Light Peak]

please add in recaptcha/keycaptcha before sending mails to prevent ip being blackholed/blacklisted by remote servers.

[Bubble #5]

I seem to be having issues with this mod NOT forwarding the persons birthdate.

After they register and you go into ACP > Users and look them up, their birthdate is not recorded. Can someone please look into this?

[fly]

Tagged in case CAPTCHA is added. Excellent idea tho.

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by fly

Tagged in case CAPTCHA is added. Excellent idea tho.

There's already CAPTCHA in registration. Why would you want it twice?

[fly]

Originally Posted by Bubble #5

There's already CAPTCHA in registration. Why would you want it twice?

Read the thread. You'll get a ton of bots signing up. Then your server sends out a ton of bad email. Then you get blacklisted. Not good...

[Bubble #5]

Originally Posted by fly

Read the thread. You'll get a ton of bots signing. Then your server sends out a ton of bad email. Then you get blacklisted. Not good...

OK pardon me for my ignorance, but why would a bot want to register on a forum?

How can you tell if its a bot that registered, verses a person?

I have noticed that almost everyone that has signed up since this has been installed does not have a birth date registered, could those be bots?

How are they getting pass the built-in captcha?

[smirkley]

There are millions of spam-bots that go out and look for cataloged registration mechanisms they can exploit and register, same bots can also post posts as well as inject home page links in accounts. The bot senders can send these out much more effeciently that human spammers.

You really cant tell if they are bots, but after awhile you tend to be able to recognise them.

The birthdays dont necessarily mean anything.

The built-in captcha, even recaptcha, is flawed and bots can brute force them or recognise the captcha text to get in.

If you have used vbresults spam blocker, you can see that most bots register in 5 seconds or less. Can you type that fast on the registration form?