Hi,<br /><br />I have a discussion forum that allows people to become a member without my needing to authorize them beforehand, if they click on an authorization link that is sent to them by email. There appears to be robots out there using the domains mail.ru and inmail24.com to become fake members. Not a major problem other than I cleaned out like 1,000 bogus members from the discussion forum. I believe they are attempting to post advertising on the discussion forum, but aren't succeeding.<br /><br />Is there an easy way to block outgoing emails to a given domain? It isn't worth a lot of trouble. I have a dedicated server.<br /><br />Thanks and Happy New Year<br />Brad<!--content-->
If you can determine the IP addresses for those domains you can use the IP deny manager in cPanel and block them from coming to your site. Don't know if you can block outgoing. But if they can't get there to sign up they wouldn't be getting an email.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=218329:date=Dec 31 2007, 05:00 PM:name=TCH-Bruce)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TCH-Bruce @ Dec 31 2007, 05:00 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=218329"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you can determine the IP addresses for those domains you can use the IP deny manager in cPanel and block them from coming to your site. Don't know if you can block outgoing. But if they can't get there to sign up they wouldn't be getting an email.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Hi,<br /><br />Today I finally got around to blocking entire IP ranges for Russia (.ru) using cPanel yet I am still getting robots that are creating accounts on my discussion forum using email accounts containing @mail.ru and inmail24.com. Perhaps it takes 24 hours or so for this to take affect. Any ideas? This is a bothersome rather than troublesome problem, so don't lose sleep over it, I'm not. I am just trying to limit the abuse of my server. This seems to help limit SPAM email if these intruders (robots) are blocked in one way or another.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Brad<!--content-->
The only other way I can think of would be to edit the authorisation script, and place the block in there <br /><br /><!--content-->
Hi Brad,<br /><br />If I recall correctly you are using wowbb for your forums? If this is the case it works like most other forums when setting bans. Just log into your admin panel and add the address under the option "bans and filters > banned emails". You do not have to enter the entire address for this to work, just entering "mail.ru " will block all registrations from that domain.<!--content-->
If you can determine the IP addresses for those domains you can use the IP deny manager in cPanel and block them from coming to your site. Don't know if you can block outgoing. But if they can't get there to sign up they wouldn't be getting an email.<!--content-->
<!--quoteo(post=218329:date=Dec 31 2007, 05:00 PM:name=TCH-Bruce)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (TCH-Bruce @ Dec 31 2007, 05:00 PM) <a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/index.php?act=findpost&pid=218329"><img src='http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/style_images/1/post_snapback.gif' alt='*' border='0' /></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you can determine the IP addresses for those domains you can use the IP deny manager in cPanel and block them from coming to your site. Don't know if you can block outgoing. But if they can't get there to sign up they wouldn't be getting an email.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--><br /><br /><br />Hi,<br /><br />Today I finally got around to blocking entire IP ranges for Russia (.ru) using cPanel yet I am still getting robots that are creating accounts on my discussion forum using email accounts containing @mail.ru and inmail24.com. Perhaps it takes 24 hours or so for this to take affect. Any ideas? This is a bothersome rather than troublesome problem, so don't lose sleep over it, I'm not. I am just trying to limit the abuse of my server. This seems to help limit SPAM email if these intruders (robots) are blocked in one way or another.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />Brad<!--content-->
The only other way I can think of would be to edit the authorisation script, and place the block in there <br /><br /><!--content-->
Hi Brad,<br /><br />If I recall correctly you are using wowbb for your forums? If this is the case it works like most other forums when setting bans. Just log into your admin panel and add the address under the option "bans and filters > banned emails". You do not have to enter the entire address for this to work, just entering "mail.ru " will block all registrations from that domain.<!--content-->