desti Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Every day I delete 10-15 such accounts... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 Well that would screw over people like me that have legit emails with dots in it. my.name.email@gmail.com (not my real email but what it is with my actual name) basically. I've had my email since at least 2006 if not earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desti Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 Problem is that my.name@ and m.yname@ - the same email for google, it does not use points in the name. But for the forum these are different emails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desti Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 compare red lined emails letter by letter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrigan Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 So the base suggestion, more accurately described, is to compare the emails "sans dots" before registration? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desti Posted October 31, 2020 Author Share Posted October 31, 2020 Morrigan, yep! Really not exactly correct formulated, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aiwa Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 (edited) Gmail ignores the . m.name and mnam.e go to the same inbox https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en Edited October 31, 2020 by Aiwa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fast Lane! Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 I think ALL periods are ignored in emails. Right? If so then IPB should strio them first then compare. Not just a straight up select mysql search on the email field. Aiwa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel_mortis Posted October 31, 2020 Share Posted October 31, 2020 That's a gmail-specific thing, although some other email providers do something similar. It would not be safe to blanket strip dots from emails, because that could open up security vulnerabilities relating to emails that do distinguish dots. Daniel F, Runar, Aiwa and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin A. Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Think this is better left off to be dealt with by the spam service. If they changed that to strip the dots and plus signs and all other things that providers typically ignore, and then add a score on that stripped email address. crmarks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 The spam service compares multiple factors - report the users as spammers and configure your site to hide or delete all content from users you flag as spammers. The numbers should dwindle over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoffeeCake Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 I believe this plugin handles this: It may just address the username+anythingyouwant@gmail.com variant though. Makoto 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxxius Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Yes, leave it to spam service. I get a lot of these too, Most of them don't even manage to verify their emails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Makoto Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 My application linked above by @Paul E. does indeed handle this. In addition to being able to block registrations from disposable e-mail addresses, it supports detecting e-mail aliases from GSuite / GMail using the dot (foobar@gmail.com / foo.bar@gmail.com) syntax, as well as the plus alias syntax (foo@gmail.com / foo+bar@gmail.com). I foresaw this being a potential for abuse long ago and implemented these measures to protect against them before it became commonplace 😉 Maxxius 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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