Joobi

thanks. If I activate the confirmation email, will this tend to stop most spam, or can spammers even get past the hurdle of clicking the confirm URL in the confirm email to get through?

andy

Hi,

I don't believe that spammers would actually read confirmation emails. This is more work for them and spammers like things to be automated.

Also, if you require confirmation and user is not confirmed he won't receive newsletter when it will be sent

Is any thing being done about this I've tested the free version but there's no way I'm going to buy the pro version unless the developers address the lack of a captcha or challenge question as I've just deleted over a 100 fake signups.

Are there any plans to upgrade this component before I dump it?

Where do you get this plugin?

I cant find it on the extensions site

whoops I found it thanks for the info

I believe I’ve experienced the same thing if I understand what’s being discussed here.  Within the last week, I’ve had several hundred new ‘subscribers’ to my Acajoom Plus list, all with GMail addresses.  The names are all common words or phrases, (some pornographic), and the addresses all appear to be random or cryptic series of letters and numbers @gmail.com.  I would like to ask two questions about this.

First, I’ve installed the Bad Behaviour bot mentioned above.  Will that have any adverse performance effect on Acajoom or any other parts of Joomla?

Second, if I change my Acajoom configuration to require email confirmation, will all 1,100+ of my known, good, subscribers receive any kind of automatic notice requiring confirmation.  I would not want that as I know all those addresses are good.  Currently all my ‘good’ subscribers show a check mark in the Confirmed column.

Thanks for the help.

Gerry Egan
Raleigh, NC USA

Thank you for the quick reply.

I took your suggestion and tested the feature on your test site.  I entered one of my emails via the backend as confirmed.  Then using the front end I entered another.  It got the confirmation email but my previously confirmed address did not.

Now I just need to find where to create the text for the confirmation email and I'll change the configuration.

Thanks.

Gerry Egan
Raleigh, NC USA

Got it!  Thank you, sir. 

Have a nice day, (what's left of it where you are, anyway!).

Gerry Egan
Raleigh, NC USA