Recent content by Peretz

Fair point, but we're 100% funded by donations and our forums aren't nearly as active as our Discord server these days, so it may make more sense to just purge newly registered accounts with zero posts every month than spend $45 once and $30 annually. (It would be a very different story if our...

What are your settings for the built-in features? I just changed our Stop Forum Spam settings from 1 / 2 / 7 / 5 to 1 / 2 / 30 / 2. I'm not confident those changes will help much.

Unfortunately, Cloudflare Turnstile (in combination with Stop Forum Spam and Project Honeypot) does not seem to be slowing the rate of spam registrations. Our forums had 35 spam registrations in approximately 12 hours and Turnstile shows a visitor solve rate of 39.41%. I didn't find any...

If Turnstile and Q&A captchas don't work out, I can ask my community if they would be willing to pay the one-time and annual costs for Xon's add-ons, but $30/year on top of the annual renewal fee would be a hefty price tag for a smaller community that's more active on Discord than forums these...

I signed up for Cloudflare Turnstile after reading that our traffic doesn't route through Cloudflare servers. I'm still reluctant to depend on Cloudflare products after their major services outage a while back, but it seems to be doing a better job than hCAPTCHA or reCAPTCHA v2 so far. We'll...

Thank you for testing and posting the results! That's encouraging to know that you were able to get SMTP relay working on XF 2.3.6 with Brevo. (I don't believe I mentioned it in previous posts, but we upgraded from 2.3.4 to 2.3.6 earlier this week.) I tried unchecking the "Use SSL/TLS" box and...

I'm wondering if both @ENF and @hescominsoon are both right in a sense, meaning that XenForo may have stricter requirements surrounding openssl and ca-certificates than WordPress. I tested a second site running WordPress (and the WP Mail SMTP plugin configured to use a Brevo account) on the...

I asked my contact at our hosting company to run the commands and these were the results: openssl s_client -connect mail.smtp2go.com:2525 CONNECTED(00000003) 4087907CB5730000:error:0A00010B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number:../ssl/record/ssl3_record.c:354: --- no peer...

So the good news is that our current setup (Stop Forum Spam, reCAPTCHA v2, DNS Block List, and Project Honey Pot all enabled and configured) prevents spam accounts from making visible posts, but it still results in a high volume of spam registrations (I'd estimate 50-100 per day) on our forums...

Same error when trying to use Mailgun. I spoke with my host and he said he has SMTP relays working for WordPress. I checked the PHP info page and confirmed that HTTPS is turned on and OpenSSL support is enabled. Are there other settings I should be checking?

Did you ever discover a solution for this issue? Your setup sounds very similar to mine and I've been banging my head against this problem all day. Outbound mail was working on 2.3.3 and appears to have broken when we upgraded to 2.3.4.

I tried a different service (SMTP2GO) and got the following error with their default port (2525) and "Use SSL/TLS" checked: I'm starting to think I'll need to ask my host to make a change to the server configuration, but I'm not sure what to ask for.

I discovered another problem with AWS: We can't pay using PayPal. Our community is 100% funded by donations and we keep our expenses as low as possible, so we don't have or need (or want) a bank account or debit/credit card. AWS doesn't accept PayPal.

We're currently using the free plan on Brevo because we only use outbound email for forum registration verification emails and our host (understandably) doesn't want to enable email services on our server. That configuration gives me this error:

I tried port 465 with "Use SSL/TLS" checked and got this error: