Gmail Addresses

[trout]

I have a bigpond email address and have NEVER had a drama with it :good:

[markn]

Have more email domains been blocked?

I could not view the forum just now and was told to change my email address. The address I had was the email address provided by my internet service provider (exemail). I tried a fastmail address, which was rejected. I tried another fastmail address and that was accepted.

I would much prefer my exemail address which has a mailbox titled "Coin Forums" and rules set for all coin forum emails to go directly there.

markn; what have you been doing?

Jeff

I just installed a new spam filter.  This shouldn't have had any effect on existing accounts as far as I was aware.  Can you PM me your old address please?

[gac_1808]

I have a hotmail email address and this was blocked.
I had to change email address to a work email, which is not what I wanted to do.

Cheers

[markn]

Sorry I am trying to resolve this.  The plugin has now been deleted rather than just turned off.

[trout]

Crikey Mark, You Mods may have to catch a bit of Sun.
Look at the bottom of the main page, You have lost ALL your colour :laugh2:

[purplepennyhunter]

I have a hotmail email address and this was blocked.
I had to change email address to a work email, which is not what I wanted to do.

Cheers

Markn is looking at this, looks like quite a few people are affected. You should be able to change your email address back once the issue is sorted.

[trout]

I have a hotmail email address and this was blocked.
I had to change email address to a work email, which is not what I wanted to do.

Cheers

Markn is looking at this, looks like quite a few people are affected. You should be able to change your email address back once the issue is sorted.

Not Me :dance2: Good old Bigpond :yahoo:

[markn]

It seems to be working again.  The plugin wasn't causing the problem.  I added all the newly banned emails for last weeks bunch of spammers and one of those is causing the board to have a spasm.  For now I've deleted all of the banned emails, I'll add them again slowly and see which one causes the problem.

Apologies.

[markn]

OK I have it.  We had a number of spam signups from @mail.com so I happily banned mail.com using the wildcard match *mail.com.  Trouble with that is that *mail.com matches anything with mail.com in it, like hotmail.com, ozemail.com.au, foomail.com.  Anyway you get the drift.  It's fixed up now.  I can re-install my spam plugin now because that wasn't causing the problem.

[gac_1808]

I have a hotmail email address and this was blocked.
I had to change email address to a work email, which is not what I wanted to do.

Cheers

Markn is looking at this, looks like quite a few people are affected. You should be able to change your email address back once the issue is sorted.

All changed back to orginal email address. Thanks:wavemulticolor:

[markn]

The anti-spam measures I put in place a few weeks ago have worked out nicely so I think we'll go ahead and unlock Gmail addresses again.  As of right now they are unlocked.

[BCNumismatics]

Thanks,Mark.

Expecting people to register with an address from an I.S.P. or from a non-free source was a bit too much.

It is Hotmail addresses that has been the ones used by hackers & spammers,as they are easy for some people to hijack.

Gmail has a lot of security measures built in.

Aidan.

[Fulvio]

The trouble with Hotmail, since Microsoft took it over (and this goes for all other MS services, like live.com, ninemsn.com.au, etc) is that they read incoming mail, and if they decide they don't like it, they bounce it without telling the recipient.

So if you send someone mail from an MS account, and they reply to it, you may or may not receive it, depending on whatever arcane process (which of course isn't revealed) they use to decide its spam. Every other provider simply marks it as spam and/or moves it to a spam folder, but with MS, you have NO idea that there was ever a reply sent to you.

This caused countless problems for an organisation I ran, because people would email us, not get a reply, start getting narky, and we had no way to tell them what was going on, unless they happened to include some other contact details in a followup email. It caused us significant harm, and probably still does.

This sort of arbitrary behaviour is why I started actively discouraging people from using any MS mail service. As Aidan says, Gmail doesn't play games with your mail, and is the only one of the free services I'd have no hesitation recommending.

As to the spam signup issue, every site that allows self-registration has the exact same issues, and not just from one particular provider. We were getting hundreds a day from all sorts of addresses, free, paid and ISP. The solution is a captcha in the registration process, or (as I've done on my test site), to abstract the registration. My Joomla accounts are actually set up by SMF forum, not the other way around, which is non-obvious and the spammers can't find it. I've not had a single attempt since I made that change.

[Ozcoins]

Fulvio.
Regarding the problem with your emails not arriving to hotmail addresses.
It sounds like you were blacklisted.

[Fulvio]

No. Some Optusnet emails went through, some didn't. If Optus were blacklisted, none would have worked. The blocks are definitely on a mail by mail basis, based on content.