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Hi,

I am trying to block some email domains that have started spamming our registration section. Privously we have been able to block domains such as hotmail, yahoo and gmail - however there have been some newones coming through that we want to block as well. Although I know that this was done in the past, I can’t work out how to add new domains to the blocking list.

We are running EE 1.6.4, thanks in advance for any help!

Kind regards,
Celia

Please can someone get back to me about this.

Kind regards,
Celia

Hi Celia,

I apologize for your wait!

You can use the Blacklist Module to add new blocked domains. It can also use automatically update lists.

I also need to suggest that you update to ExpressionEngine 1.7.3 if you can. 1.6.4 is fairly out-of-date.

Cheers!

Hi,

I have installed this module and I can black list IP addresses, URL’s and user agents - but how do I block certain email domains, such as “@yahoo” and “@gmail”?

There is a way of doing this as it has been done in the past, but the person who did it has since left.

Kind regards,
Celia

I have managed to work this out for myself.

If anyone else has a similar issue:-

—> go to the admin section
—> Members and Groups
—> User Banning

Then in the “Banned email addresses” (box on the right hand side) add the domains you want to be blocked, each as new line items listed as *@domain.com for example -

*@yahoo.com
*@hotmail.com
*@gmail.com

Hi Celia,

Excellent solution! Thank you for sharing!

If you need anything else, please let us know.

Cheers,