Guest Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 either on registering or after buying, this should eliminate a good deal of fakerz... so let me hear what about it ????? :lol:
Mark Evans Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 either on registering or after buying, this should eliminate a good deal of fakerz... This is already built into osC :) As default we check the domain name is valid and as an extra check you can turn on Verify email using DNS which you can configure using email options in the admin tool. Mark Evans osCommerce Monkey & Lead Guitarist for "Sparky + the Monkeys" (Album on sale in all good record shops) --------------------------------------- Software is like sex: It's better when it's free. (Linus Torvalds)
Waza04 Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Yep it works quite well for address like [email protected] But this would still get past: [email protected] Becuase the domain (Hotmail.com) dose exist!!
Guest Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 hi, thanx for the quick reply... I was aware of this function, but it is not sufficient.. It only checks if a email adres COULD exicst.. Take for instance this board software, to register you must click on a validation link sent to you IN an email... this is the sort of stuff thats makes chances of abuse grow lesser very fast.. Possible still???
loxly Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 I think you would have a problem getting shoppers to register if you were to set that step into the process. It has been pointed out elsewhere that the *fewer* steps there are the better for customer compliance. I'd bet you would lose a lot of sales if you were to put that in place. Debbie [no external urls in signatures please, kthanks]
Waza04 Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 Yer, you would, whenever I go to a site and they have this system, I normally don't want to register!! But if somebody would come with something like this, It would be good for development puposes..
Menno Posted February 20, 2003 Posted February 20, 2003 I've been looking around for a function like this, it can be found on http://www.mailutilities.com/services/eav.html This checks the response of the SMTP server, and looks to work in most cases (checked it on my own domain, and some others.). So, the technology does exist, now find a way to get it into oscommerce :?
Guest Posted March 29, 2003 Posted March 29, 2003 I would love this hack :) Just what I am looking for!
Guest Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Anyone know if this has been developed by anyone at all yet? we seem to have a few fakers registering with valid domains but invalid emails - i would personally prefer it if we could ensure that all email address were validated. Thanx Razz
cgchris99 Posted February 19, 2004 Posted February 19, 2004 Menno, I don't think this will work in all cases. I test one of my servers and the host has this feature blocked. It reports error 550 Aministrative Prohibition.
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