'Account limit reached' - where is this coming from?

[Guest]

Using 2.3.4.1 CE and PHP 7.0  Might be Edge, might be Gold, not sure.

I'm trying to create a test account in my live site and keep getting this error at the top of my screen in catalog/create_account.php

I've had a few test accounts over the years, all of which have been deleted.

My website will not allow me to create a new account now.

I tried deleting some very old accounts, many years old, thinking that maybe something was wrong with my database and I had hit some kind of 'limit' on the number of accounts, but no luck.  Same message every time.

I'm not trying to do it every five minutes, either.  More like....every 3 or 4 hours.

I have no idea what to look for now.  I can't even find the text for that message in the language files.

What could it be? 

- Andrea

[René H4]

Never heard of a message like this. Are "real customers"  able to create an account on your site?

 

[♥peterpil19]

Hi Andrea,

I found your site and was able to create 2 x accounts (called 'test delete' and 'test delete2') successfully.

Regards,

Peter

[Guest]

define('MODULE_HEADER_TAGS_HONEYPOT_CREATE_ACCOUNT_TOO_SOON', 'Account limit reached.');

Well, that only took me 24 hours to figure out!  It's the Honeypot Captcha contrib.

Problem is...I'm trying to create an account MANY hours after the fact. 

Guess I need to head over to that support thread.

Thanks for looking, guys!

- Andrea

[♥peterpil19]

I'm glad you found the cause of the problem. 👍

Regards,

Peter