spam prevention

[Huntress]

WAIT!  If you set up the POP account you have to leave the mssages on the server!  Make sure of that.

[nicholassolutions]

heheh, I can see this is stirring up trouble already =)

One (or both) of you can also use IMAP to prevent a conflict. Credentials/servers are the same.

I updated the text on the registration page. Let's see how it works out!

[Huntress]

I'll give it a test right now...Username=Muse

[coral1]

Leave messages -- check

I was just going to do a test run. I won't do anything until we can sync our efforts. : D

I really need to get to bed now.

[Huntress]

LOL  It's giving an error but still gives the info at least.  ;-)

[nicholassolutions]

dang I forgot to fix that. Lemme try

[Huntress]

Just got my email for resistering at least.  I think this will work well to deter a lot of the crap.  And as far as registrations go...I'll need to change the message to include "desired username"  password will be generated by whichever admin does the reg then sent to the user.  This way, all we have to do is search the usernames to see if they've already been done by another admin.

[Huntress]

News edited.

To register as a member here you will have to send an email with the subject "Register" then include your desired username and a brief message in the body to register@expertsrt.net Thank you!

[nicholassolutions]

Sounds like a plan. I fixed the registration screen message so it doesn't look like an error. I'll update the message in a second. Thanks for the help sorting this out. Now it's past my bedtime too :)

Talk to you guys soon. Probably not before the weekend - I got a bunch of junk to do this week.

[Huntress]

Ok hun.  ttys!  Sleep well both of you.

[Huntress]

GOT IT!  If you login through Horde you can mark messages as "Answered".  That won't work if we all use POP3 though.  :-/

[coral1]

OK. I got in through Horde, and looked around a bit.
Inbox was empty, and I saw the 2 tests in Sent.

What are you using to generate passwords?

[Huntress]

Haven't had to yet.  I think we may have deterred the worst of it now.  It might be awhile before we get any new members again.

Besides, it doesn't really matter what the password is since they should change it as soon as they login.

[coral1]

>> it doesn't really matter what the password is since...

That's kind of what I thought, but wanted to double check.

I don't want to furar things TOO soon.   ; )

[coral1]

OK, what did I do wrong to get this:

[error message removed by matt for security]

I was trying to register a new user, and that's what I got when I hit the Register Button.
The email is from Nick Wilson, just in case it went out despite the error message.

update:

I just checked again, seems it did register him (Kestrel). I will go ahead and mark it Answered.