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It seems that on my installation, the banned email domain list simply not work. User with such email domain keep register and splog the community.

I've seen this normally have been fixed, and I checked my code, it seems to be up to date, but the wp-signup page don't display the "use another email domain" message.

You can have a try here : http://inda-blog.com/ wp-signup.php with one of theese domain (which are my actual banned domains list) :

@zhopa.biz
@s2worldsports.net
@d2pills.org
@d2treatment.org
@gmail.com
@a2bmw.org
@c2voyage.org
@s2sportblog.org
@rebelmail.info
@luvgolfing.com
@moviefan.com
@wild4music.com
@games.com
@allsportsrock.com

Thanks !

Do you have the @ sign in the list? I don't use the banned list since I only allow certain email domains, but in my allowed domains field I enter the domains without the @ sign. You may want to try:

zhopa.biz
s2worldsports.net
d2pills.org
d2treatment.org
gmail.com

Steve

holy crap your blocking out google? (gmail)?

edit: >saw that the ones i added was in your list already

ekusteve > Yes, I have the @ in the list. I just removed it, so we'll see.

Bloggproffs > Gmail represent 50% of the spammers on my installation, so, yes, I block google... (and that's a pitty : my main features are based on google...)

ok i understand, i must be lucky then, i dont get any spam from google as it is now, altough i added thoose domains to my block list, and they stil can sign up, had 4 of them signing up during this morning.

i added them like this:

zhopa.biz
s2worldsports.net
d2pills.org
d2treatment.org

any ideas?

idem for gmail. One signup till I made change on my banned domains list...

There's an open trac ticket on this problem as well as a thread on bad domains also.

The open track ticket do not seems to be very active... No one got this fixed ?

This is weird, I added gmail.com to my test server and I wasn't able to register using my gmail account. If it's not working for you, you'll need to debug it some more.
Look in sitemeta, is the array of domains cut off? Are there stray spaces in there?(shouldn't be)
Look in wpmu-functions.php:is_email_address_unsafe() - dump variables to the screen or a log file and look at each loop over the domain list.
Are you using a particularly long list? Maybe there's an overflow or something.

the sitemeta looks like a:1:{i:0;s:2570:"126.com 163.com [...] zhopa.biz";}

(I cut it off in order not te be too long, but till yesterday the list was quite short)

I do not understand "stray spaces" . What do you mean exactly ?

Can you explain how can I look the wpmu-functions.php:is_email_address_unsafe() ?

Thanks.

Was that a copy/paste or did you type that array in? Mine looks like

a:5:{i:0;s:9:\"zhopa.biz\";i:1;s:17:\"s2worldsports.net\";i:2;s:11:\"d2pills.org\";i:3;s:15:\"d2treatment.org\";i:4;s:9:\"gmail.com\";}

a:5 stands for "Array" with 5 elements, so it couldn't be a:1 at the start, I hope!

That was a copy paste...
So I've got a problem. I just need to know how to solve it now !

edit : Solved ! In the option page of the admin panel, it says to separate each domain by a space, but in fact you need to add each domain on a new line. I've checked the mysql table, and everything is ok (with 165 elements in the array)

To fix: copy the domains out of the db to notepad, vi, or wherever, and strip all the php code from around it.
Then delete the list from the db and go to your admin options page again and copy the list of domains from your text editor.

Hopefully you'll end up with a correct array!

I solved that : see my last post.

That "separate each domain by a space" refers to the previous entry, "Limited Email Registrations". Hopefully everyone elses problems are caused by the same thing!

I've got it under the limited email registration fields and under the banned domain box.
I also post the "fix" on the trac ticket.

Really? How old is your WPMU? This is what mine shows:
http://i23.tinypic.com/xqkknt.png
It's been in there for the last 9 months :)

Seems like the french version do not update...
I'm on WPmu 1.2.3 !

Holy crap, separate each by a space refers to the previous line? Damn, that's what's been getting me this whole time!

You know, maybe the form should be consistent on how it expects input...

Actually, this isn't helping me. I definitely have users who have the same email domains that are in the restricted list.

they should be in a list with a carriage return after each one, and make sure there are no extra spaces.

I shouldn't say it isn't helping at all... I do THINK I'm getting less spam signups, but the few I do get still seem to be of domains I've blocked. Is it possible they're just changing their email address after registering? It would be nice to get an email every time someone registers with their address and IP address. registrationnotification is set to "yes" in the db, but I don't get any... is that my own email problem?

To make sure it was getting the right kind of new line, I checked my database. I have something like this:

a:8:{i:0;s:12:"lulldns.info";i:1;s:8:"21cn.com";i:2;s:8:"sohu.com";i:3;s:11:"jetable.net";i:4;s:11:"jetable.com";i:5;s:11:"jetable.org";i:6;s:11:"h0tm41l.com";i:7;s:0:"";}

Also, I have both allowed_themes and allowedthemes in the database. Is that normal?

Db entry looks right to me, although I gotta tell ya, my list is easy 4 times the size of that.

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Do you have the @ sign in the list? I don't use the banned list since I only allow certain email domains, but in my allowed domains field I enter the domains without the @ sign. You may want to try:

zhopa.biz
s2worldsports.net
d2pills.org
d2treatment.org
gmail.com

Steve
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How do you allow only certain domains to register?

How do you allow only certain domains to register?

That should be an option on the Site Admin -> Options page.

Where? I am pretty sure that option doesnt exist.

But it shoud be possible to add it if I can just find the right register-file.

I am pretty sure that option doesnt exist.

I suggest that you check again. Site Admin -> Options -> Banned Email Domains.

My banned email domain list has stopped working too. I've got signups up from mail.ru and gawab.com which are on my black list

Hmmmmm

I think I might have found something.

Got a signup for a user account which is using a banned email domain.

Looked in my Apache logs. No sign up for my blogs using the blog sign up BUT there is a signup for the BBPress forum that I had integrated.

So I guess I need to change BBPress to redirect its signup to the WPMU signup page (and remove its own register.php file).