Hi All,
I got an email from a guy trying to register on my forum.
He had received a message along the lines of:
The user <name> with Email <address> (IP 31.216.7.202) is a Spam, please contact forum administrator.
I tried to register one of my own email addresses and I got the same thing.
I expect that anyone trying to register will get this message.
Can anyone point out what I need to change?
Thanks,
Wilson.
this is not a default feature of SMF. do you have any mods installed?
I have:
Anti-Spam Verification Questions 1.01
Bot Buster 1.1
Tapatalk SMF 2.0 Plugin
Is there a facility whereby I can search all the code on the site?
" is a Spam, please contact forum administrator." is likely to be a fairly unique string. If I can find where it is, I can find how to switch it off.
Cheers,
Wilson.
i really doubt you have anti-spam verification questions installed on 2.0 as it is a default feature.
most likely related to bot buster, try uninstalling that mod.
I've uninstalled Bot Buster and I still get the same error.
Is it possible to search the code for a string?
SOLVED:
I am using Stop Forum Spam.
This has a list of suspect user names and rejected my new user (and my test user I tried to add) based on this lookup list.
FYI I had the word 'purchase' in my test user & the rejected real user had 'public' in his user name.
You can switch off username checking (which is worthless, it never rejects any of the obviously spam usernames I see)
In the:
Registration
Settings
uncheck the setting for: Check also Username
Cheers,
Wilson.