By keyguy on

Hi!

My Drupal based site has been configured to send an email to the user who just registered with the site. Now a days it seems several people try to register with invalid emails and the user registration welcome emails bounce back to my admin account.

Can Drupal be hacked to have a script doing the automatic registration with invalid emails?

1. How can I stop the generation of user registration welcome email?

2. How can I make Drupal hack proof so that automatic script is no creating the user account? I want to achieve that without having "email verification for the account registration".

Thanks,
Keyguy

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

Comments

lhtown’s picture

lhtown commented

There are different ways of approaching this problem. If it is just a nuisance, and not affecting your site, you might just want to grin and bear it.

It might actually go away, or it might become unbearable.

You might try a captcha.
http://drupal.org/project/captcha
http://drupal.org/project/captcha_pack

WorldFallz’s picture

WorldFallz commented

the http://drupal.org/project/captcha module works pretty well depending on which of the mechanisms you choose, there's also other options listed on the captcha project page.

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Grimlock’s picture

Grimlock commented

You'll need to have captcha install and the you can setup reCaptcha.
Go to http://www.recaptcha.net and create a profile and add your domain. Once you generate your keys you can then setup the reCaptcha module in Drupal http://drupal.org/project/recaptcha. Make sure to read the instructions because you'll need to download the class file.

Have fun.