Check E-mail Before Registration

Hi,

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=144590

Code (markup):

Is there any MOD similar to above for Phpbb3??

THanks.

Harshadewa

 

i'm not to familiar with phpbb, but isn't there an option that requires new members to authenticate via email?

 

there is option that user have to activate their account. But most users register with false e-mail address. Then the see they have to activate the account. Then they just go away.

If we can check e-mail in registration then we can have some members with valid e-mail.

 

another suggestion i could make, and not being too familiar with phpbb, is to prune out user accounts that have never been validated.

can you do that with phpbb?

 

oh yes I Can do that with PhpBB

 

I would suggest that you use the "account activation by user" facility from ACP.
That keeps spam bots off.

Also use the ban e-mail setting effectively so that the automated bots wont pass this stage.
I would ban the following normally:
*@*sex*
*.cn
*.org
*.net
*.ru
*.ws
*@*1*
*@*2*
*@*3*
*@*4*
*@*5*
*@*6*
*@*7*
*@*8*
*@*9*
*@*0*

Keep on updating this list seeing the e-mail id with with bots try to register.
More like a cat and mouse game.

I dont have much of the spam bots problem now after implementing the above.
However, you my end up blocking the genuine user from registering. So be careful with wild cards.