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Email verification issue? READ HERE (self.feddituk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tom to c/feddituk
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Hey everyone, It seems a lot of people are having issues verifying their email when first signing up as they are not receiving the email.

This is because around 20-30% or emails sent from admin@feddit.uk are being bounced due to being marked as spam. I'm working on fixing this at the moment, (the domain is on a domain blacklist on spamhaus.org)

In the meantime, please send an email to admin@feddit.uk from the email that needs verifying and I will verify the email manually which should resolve the issue.

Thanks, Tom

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[–] Senseibu 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you purge the bot accounts @tom@feddit.uk ? Can see a material decrease which is actually good

[–] tom 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha yeh i did there was around 3k bots accounts which I found and purged hadn’t liked or subscribed to any communities and their email was a distinct pattern

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the vigilance - most seem to just be joining and staying quiet. They're like a ticking time bomb.

[–] raeli 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just want to say - that alone, I hope, isn't automatically an assumption of them being a bot. I rarely comment on threads - the only reason I'm even commenting now, is so that I can show that I am, in fact, a human.

[–] Emperor 1 points 1 year ago

No need to worry - there were clearly patterns in the bot accounts that give them away. I imagine the vast majority or folks signed up here haven't posted so you could hardly rely on just that as your criteria.