Email whitelist?

Newtex

I have an email banning rule that works great, but it's slightly too generic atm and making it less generic would let bots pass through. If I was able to whitelist a certain email provider then it would be perfect. Is there any way to do that?

donshakespeare

What is your current rule and how implemented?

Kaspar

https://open.vanillaforums.com/discussion/37661/email-whitelist

That would not help - As I understand what you wrote:

You got a rule

A*@example.ban

But it is to generic as everyone starting with A gets banned.

So you want to whitelist

*@example.ban

Which rule then gets presedence?

Maybe your case is more clear when I see your reply to donshakespeare

Newtex

@Kaspar

That's a silly example and has nothing to do with domains. I clearly write that this is about email providers, not names.

@donshakespeare

My rule is *@*.*.*

So far it has banned 5000 invalid users from spam domains matching that pattern.

2 were valid.

Those two valid users had *@yahoo.co*.*

If I could whitelist *@yahoo.co*.*, that would be great.

Kaspar

"a distinct subset of the Internet with addresses sharing a common suffix or under the control of a particular organization or individual."

You want to whitelist the subset of common suffix, which is a domain or part of its name, not the organization or individual which is providing said domain.

I have not tested this and do not know if it works "as is" with the current vf version but it is a start.

https://open.vanillaforums.com/addon/limitregistrations-plugin

Aolee

@Newtex Can you provide a sample of that pesky email being used by bot?

R_J

By now I haven't understood how that rule is applied. A plugin for such a purpose would be short:

class SomePlugin extends Gdn_Plugin {
    public function userModel_beforeRegister_handler($sender, $args) {
        if (isset($args['RegisteringUser'])) {
            $email = $args['RegisteringUser']['Email'];
        } else {
            $email = $args['User']['Email'];
        }
        // Do the magic here, return if everything is alright, if it fails:
        $args['Valid'] = false;
        $sender->Validation->addValidationResult('Email', 'Go away...');
    }
}

That "magic" there could be a preg_match and the whitelist could be written in the config to make it flexible: $pattern = Gdn::config('Plugins.SomePlugin.WhitelistPattern').If you put also that blacklist into a config setting, that would make a decent plugin.

If you prefer to ban such users instead of hindering them from registration, you could use the afterRegistration event instead.