Defunct. This plugin does not exist anymore.
This feature of blacklisting certain email domains already exists in Discourse, but the bonus with this plugin is that you avoid maintaining (and entering) a list of thousands of free email domains.
The good news is that there are only really about 20-30 reliable, popular disposable email services … so it’s not that much trouble to use the site setting.
But if you want a complete block of hundreds, maybe thousands of potential free email sites, this is certainly a better alternative.
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Cool deal. I’ll take advantage of this.
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Yes, that is correct, almost no need to manually add blocked domains anymore. Besides the standard disposable email providers (like Mailinator) Kickbox also catches a lot of the dynamically created disposable emails.
Of course, there are paid services like https://debounce.io/ and https://www.ipqualityscore.com/ which are even better, but I wanted to ship the plugin with a free service out of the box.
As mentioned in my OP, you could still use the plugin and relay the response from a paid service to one the plugin understands e.g. via Zapier & co.
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Is this still available for the latest Discourse version?
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I just activated the plugin and tried it but unfortunately it didn’t work. I was able to register with a random temporary e-mail address generated via https://temp-mail.org/
I checked to see if I did something wrong but couldn’t find a problem.