Verification

We removed the previous quarantine system in version 22.01. You can now send verification links on register via email or SMS. Emails are sent with the popular software PHPMailer which is the current industry standard and is used by WordPress, Drupal, Joomla. SMS messages require a subscription to a paid service: ClickSend.com

Email Verification

To send out email messages you have to use an existing email (email address provided by your hosting provider). Turn on email verification - go to ACP » Settings » Verification and select via email from the drop-down menu. Enter SMTP host, SMTP user, SMTP password and EmailFrom email address and save with OKAY. Default SMTP port with encryption is 587.

Test email sending with PHPMailer

• Make sure that all SMTP settings are correct and saved in the AdminCP
• Create a new PHP file in the main chat folder e.g. 123mail.php with the following content (replace toUser@host.com with an email address you can check):

<?php

require_once('config.php');
require_once('incl/main.php');
neutral_dbconnect(); $settings=get_settings();
require_once('phpmailer.php');

echo send_smtp_mail('toUser@host.com','message subject','message body; timestamp: '.time(),1);

?>

• Navigate to 123mail.php with your browser - an emal message will be sent to toUser@host.com with information in detail about the process of sending or debug information in case of an error.

Disposable email addresses

A list of disposable email addresses such as mailinator.com can be downloaded from our support center. That allows you to force your new users to provide a real email address on registration.

• Unzip and upload disposable_email_addresses.txt in the main chat folder
• Enter the name of the file disposable_email_addresses.txt in ACP » Settings » Verification: A file with blacklisted email domains
• Save with OKAY

SMS Verification

You need a ClickSend account!

ClickSend is a paid SMS gateway - register a ClickSend account at clicksend.com and you will receive 2.00 USD credit. SMS messages to the following test numbers: +61411111111 +61422222222 are not charged. All sent SMS messages can be seen from dashboard.clicksend.com » SMS » History.

Turn on SMS verification - go to ACP » Settings » Verification and select via SMS from the drop-down menu. Enter ClickSend user, ClickSend API key and save with OKAY. Your API credentials can be found under dashboard.clicksend.com » Developers » API credentials.

You can restrict phone prefixes - ACP » Settings » Verification: comma separated white list with prefixes. For example 44,49,33 would allow UK, German and French numbers only.

Disposable phone numbers

A list of disposable phone numbers can be downloaded from our support center. That allows you to force your new users to provide a real phone number on registration. Phone numbers cannot be reused.

• Unzip and upload disposable_phone_numbers.txt in the main chat folder
• Enter the name of the file disposable_phone_numbers.txt in ACP » Settings » Verification: A file with blacklisted phone numbers (one per line)
• Save with OKAY