Topic: Users with invalid e-mails register despite Verify registration: Yes
Hello Rickard and others,
I'm using PunBB 1.2.10 (with English, Russian and German lang packs) under
OpenBSD and with PostgreSQL 8.1.0 here: http://www.preferans.de/forum/
First of all: thank you for the nice forum!
Now to my problem: I've installed PunBB a month ago and already about 30 users
have registered. I'm worried by the few users, which keep registering with an
invalid e-mail address, like from5663@preferans.de or and4676@preferans.de
(I'm sure they are invalid, because I'm the owner of the "preferans.de" domain):
http://www.preferans.de/forum/profile.php?id=41
http://www.preferans.de/forum/profile.php?id=42
Interestingly their usernames are the same as their e-mail addresses.
So is it maybe a bug in PunBB 1.2.10? Because I have set Verify registration: Yes
in the Admin - Options. Or are those just unconfirmed registrations, which will be
dropped later (could you please refer me to the .php script which does this cleanup)
and I don't have to worry about those, since they won't be able to login?
And here is what I see in the database (the 2 suspicious users and my config):
punbb=> select * from users where username like '%preferans.de';
id | group_id | username | password | email | title | realname | url | jabber | icq | msn | aim | yahoo | location | use_avatar | signature | disp_topics | disp_posts | email_setting | save_pass | notify_with_post | show_smilies | show_img | show_img_sig | show_avatars | show_sig | timezone | language | style | num_posts | last_post | registered | registration_ip | last_visit | admin_note | activate_string | activate_key
----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------------------------+-----------------------+-------+----------+-----+--------+-----+-----+-----+-------+----------+------------+-----------+-------------+------------+---------------+-----------+------------------+--------------+----------+--------------+--------------+----------+----------+----------+------------+-----------+-----------+------------+-----------------+------------+------------+-----------------+--------------
41 | 32000 | from5663@preferans.de | e618a2d52c4829df50b5b16be791b090ac82d8e8 | from5663@preferans.de | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Russian | phpbb_blue | 0 | | 1141115943 | 217.174.249.110 | 1141115943 | | |
42 | 32000 | and4676@preferans.de | 9cd4aa97c1157eac18778b7c0a8194b54f7b8b22 | and4676@preferans.de | | | | | | | | | | 0 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Russian | phpbb_blue | 0 | | 1141115989 | 192.138.77.36 | 1141115989 | | |
(2 rows)I'm worried most by the fact that the 2 fields activate_string and activate_key above are cleared. Does it mean the users have somehow managed to confirm their bogus e-mail addresses?
punbb=> select * from config;
conf_name | conf_value
------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------
o_cur_version | 1.2.10
o_default_style | phpbb_blue
o_time_format | H:i:s
o_date_format | Y-m-d
o_timeout_visit | 600
o_timeout_online | 300
o_redirect_delay | 1
o_show_version | 0
o_show_user_info | 1
o_show_post_count | 1
o_smilies | 1
o_smilies_sig | 1
o_make_links | 1
o_default_user_group | 4
o_topic_review | 15
o_disp_topics_default | 30
o_disp_posts_default | 25
o_indent_num_spaces | 4
o_quickpost | 1
o_users_online | 1
o_censoring | 0
o_ranks | 1
o_show_dot | 0
o_quickjump | 1
o_report_method | 0
o_mailing_list | alexander.farber@gmail.com
o_avatars | 1
o_avatars_dir | img/avatars
o_additional_navlinks | 0 = <A HREF="/">Java Pref</A>
4 = <A HREF="/impressum.php">Impressum <IMG SRC="/bundesflagge.gif" WIDTH=13 HEIGHT=8></A>
o_search_all_forums | 1
o_base_url | http://www.preferans.de/forum
o_admin_email | alexander.farber@gmail.com
o_webmaster_email | alexander.farber@gmail.com
o_subscriptions | 1
o_smtp_user |
o_smtp_pass |
o_regs_allow | 1
p_sig_img_tag | 1
o_regs_verify | 1
o_rules | 0
p_subject_all_caps | 0
o_maintenance | 0
p_allow_dupe_email | 0
p_mod_edit_users | 1
p_mod_rename_users | 0
p_mod_change_passwords | 0
p_mod_ban_users | 0
p_message_bbcode | 1
p_message_img_tag | 1
p_message_all_caps | 1
p_sig_all_caps | 1
p_sig_bbcode | 1
p_sig_length | 400
p_sig_lines | 4
p_allow_banned_email | 1
p_force_guest_email | 1
o_board_title | Preferans.de
o_server_timezone | 1
o_default_lang | Russian
o_gzip | 1
o_regs_report | 1
o_avatars_size | 20000
o_smtp_host | 127.0.0.1
o_announcement | 0
o_board_desc | <I>???????? ???????</I>
o_avatars_width | 200
o_avatars_height | 200
o_rules_message | Don't be rude!
o_announcement_message | Achtung!!!
o_maintenance_message | The forums are temporarily down for maintenance.
Please try again in a few minutes.<br /> <br /> /Alex
(70 rows)Regards
Alex
PS: Please feel free to register there - then you'll be able to set English as display language
http://www.preferans.de/forum/register.php
