SMF rejecting all registrations as spam

[evildrome]

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.

[Illori]

this is not a default feature of SMF. do you have any mods installed?

[evildrome]

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.

[Illori]

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.

[evildrome]

I've uninstalled Bot Buster and I still get the same error.

Is it possible to search the code for a string?

[evildrome]

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.