[support] Many false applications for accounts

[Alison]

When you pay for on-line purchases via PayPal, it does a 'simulated' transaction for a dollar to verify the accuracy of the data entered. In checking the mail log for my mail server - Postfix/Dovecot, when I send emails there is a message from the remote server confirming the validity of the address.  As most registration faculties require an email address, would it not be difficult to do something similar to PayPal in checking whether the remote mail server for the email address will accept the emails for the address entered before processing the registration. Just a thought.

Alison







At 12:07 AM 08-04-14, you wrote:
>I tried Honeypot, and it indeed cut down the number of false
>applications by about 80%. I could easily put in a field that legitimate
>users could fill in correctly, but spammers could not. But how could I
>check this and automatically cancel applications with bad information
>for that field?  For example, on one site for a fraternity, I asked for
>the street address of the fraternity.
>
>Jim
>
>On 4/7/14, 8:00 AM, support-request at drupal.org wrote:
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 07:28:40 -0400
>> From: Philip_Wetzel at nhd.uscourts.gov
>> Subject: Re: [support] Many false applications for accounts
>> To: support at drupal.org
>> Cc: support-bounces at drupal.org, wdlists at gmail.com
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>> The CAPTCHA code has been broken a number of times and they've
>> re-engineered it.    If it's not currently effective, they'll probably come
>> up
>> with a fix.  The game goes on.
>>