Access rules (email filters)

Last updated October 8, 2008. Created by amariotti on January 7, 2007.
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Have you ever wanted to deny access to all users with a certain e-mail address? Or, better yet, have you ever wanted to only allow users with @institution.edu to create accounts on your site? Below an easy solution using Drupal's access rules.

View your access rules by going to Administer -> Access Control -> Access Rules.

Click on Add Rule and add the following e-mail rules:

Deny %@% (which blocks all e-mail address)
Allow %@institution.edu (which will allow people with anyone@institution.edu)

When you're done go and check your rules by clicking on "Check Rules." (Drupal 5)

Comments

Rules fail

Posted by dccrane on December 24, 2010 at 4:12am

Drupal 6.15.

deny email %.@%.ru when tested says it's allowed. Furthermore, xxx@mail.ru was allowed.

What am I missing?

Sorry for the typo. The rule

Posted by dccrane on December 24, 2010 at 4:36am

Sorry for the typo. The rule is %@%.ru

I get the same message

Posted by bibliotastic on March 6, 2011 at 8:19pm

Is the rule checker wrong or is the access rules function actually not working?

My interpretation.

Posted by Drunoober on November 16, 2011 at 3:51pm

as written in the doc you need to...

set Deny %@% (which blocks all e-mail address)

AND THEN

Allow %@institution.edu (which will allow people with anyone@institution.edu)

in simple terms you need to start from the most restrictive rule and add exceptions to that restriction

Hope this helps

Urgent project

Posted by RIEntrepreneur on March 7, 2011 at 2:34am

I got the access rules working to only accept a certain domain. How can I make a custom access denied or page redirect when users are denied registration due to their email.

Drupal 7 method?

Posted by lineyw on April 20, 2011 at 3:01am

Hi,

Is there a way to do this in Drupal 7? would be very grateful for any explanation. Is there a way to do this with the rules module / how?
thanks!!

This might help

Posted by eusofzay on June 1, 2011 at 7:04am

http://drupal.org/node/1020672

Hello I have used this method

Posted by chefarov on May 16, 2011 at 5:31am

Hello

I have used this method to permit access only for emails of specific domain, and I have created allow rules for some accounts already registered that I do not want to lock out...

But somehow the deny rule becomes global without taking care the allow rules and I have locked out some users, maybe admin will also be after my session expires.

Any Ideas?

Finally it was due to the

Posted by chefarov on June 1, 2011 at 8:40am

Finally it was due to the fact that when you make a deny rule based on email, then you should make an allow rule also for email so that to add an exception for some users. I was doing that by username allow rule which doesn't work.

Drupal 7 where it is ?

Posted by DooDoo on June 1, 2011 at 5:17am

In Drupal 7, where to set access rule ?

I used to set it in Drupal 6 . when I upgrade to Drual 7, I could not find it.

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deny access completely instead of just blocking

Posted by z8ballbaby on November 27, 2012 at 7:29pm

I administer a private local group website and get 50-100 spam registers every day. If I add a rule to the spam email, they just get blocked and I still have to take time to delete them. Then they just re-register again.

Is there a way to not allow a domain (like ".com.br") to even attempt to register?