I am seeing a small but consistent number of spam accounts being created on my Discourse forum each day. Many appear to be using fake or invalid email addresses. I am looking for a way to automate the following process: A new user creates an account and Discourse sends the activation/verification…

Hello @LotusJeff Did you have a look at these settings, as I think they will get you some part of the way there: Configure these settings in /admin/settings/ Setting Suggested Value Effect purge_unactivated_users_grace_period_days 1 Deletes unactivated accounts in 1 day instead of 14. It …

Thanks. I already have VERP in place, and I am currently manually reviewing the bounced emails, deleting the associated accounts, and adding repeat-offender domains to the blocked email domains list using the settings you mentioned. It sounds like I need to dive into Workflows next. Time to learn a…

[image] LotusJeff: It sounds like I need to dive into Workflows next. Time to learn another new Discourse feature and see how much of this process I can automate there. :grinning_face: I gave it a quick test earlier, with the Workflow AI, and it was looking promising afaict. Let us know how i…

do you have discourse-captcha enabled? [image] Discourse Captcha Plugin Plugin update: Discourse hCaptcha is now Discourse Captcha tada This plugin has been renamed from Discourse hCaptcha to Discourse Captcha to reflect its expanded scope. It now support…

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