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cool one :) .. great way to kick off a Sat morning

have this one running a whole day.. relaxing

.. manually removed around 70k users by identifying domains that are used for creating bulk user accounts + removing users that have a following pattern in their email address: (dot)character(dot) for a new webmasters, more details on the last one: example of the last one...

Hahhh.. nice :) We will also look into this. Thank you for sharing.

Good morning, What is the recommended process on cleaning user accounts? Last April I acquired 2 old forums (est. in 2001 and 2004) and need to clean the users so that we can start sending monthly DMs (newsletters with industry updates) to our users, and maintaining low email bounce-rate...

Good morning Eva, thank you for this advice! Very useful!

You are both correct. We stopped sending out the pending notifications after valuating the high bounce-rate. Will be diving into XF foru and reading about the best XF cleaning practices and experiences. Best wishes all! H

Good morning, Question to large and old forum owners whose email bounce-rates are above 10-15% - what SMTP server/vps setup do you use? Last year I aquired a 530k member forum (est. in 2001) and 15.5k member forum (est. 2004). Note: both forums serve a particular niche and almost all the...