hi, Do you also get a lot of the new forum spam from non-exsting yahoo mail adresses? How do you and how can we overrun this new method. its not any good idea to ban *@yahoo.com i know that. but i get one or two a day. Normaly get an error message from my host that the message not got to the new member. Should Yahoo do something about this fake signups or ? this is my latest. ........ <flcpgmod@yahoo.com>: host f.mx.mail.yahoo.com[209.191.88.247] said: 554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.com account (flcpgmod@yahoo.com) [0] - mta328.mail.mud.yahoo.com (in reply to end of DATA command) Code (markup):
There are two things you can do to stop this. 1) Put up a good captcha for your registration. 2) Use e-mail account activation. If a real person signs up with a fake email, this will stop them from being able to activate the account. I recommend implementing both.
i use the captcha who are in phpbb, and i do use that activate email, but still they come in. So they can somehow bypass that yahoo fake email account
I don't know about the options on phpbb, but I know in vBulletin I had to use more advanced captcha settings than the default as the spam bots found a way to read the basic captcha. Make it as complex as possible.