Can someone PLEASE get me a free email ban list?

[fraser]

here are instructions to get an upto date list.. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...05&postcount=1

[fraser]

here is a post with the list and instructions how to update it... http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...96#post1100896

[Joe Gronlund]

here is a post with the list and instructions how to update it... http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...96#post1100896

Very handy., thanks

[welo]

Okay, that's pretty good. Had considered doing something similar a looong time ago and never quite got to it. Thanks for posting the script. I'll see about updating the list using it later this week.

[Floris]

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[fraser]

update..

Ok i sorted and collected, then collected some more Figured since i got a stack of them here id share the rest i found...

here is a list of 16584 (not a typo) unique valid free email domains....
http://www.myupb.com/upb1.97/biglist.php

...

if your interested, it gets tough processing arrays that have a lot of keys... So instead of loops you must use array functions to handle them..Here is what i did...

1) Dump as many free domains into a text file as i can find.. call it 'my_biglist.txt'

2) created this file, called 'process_biglist.php'

<?php
 
// get all the emails in a string
$all = file_get_contents('my_biglist.txt');
 
// strip off all the '@' symbols 
$all = str_replace('@', '', $all);
 
// Create an array of all the domains
$list = explode(" ", $all);
 
// get rid of any duplicate entries and re-index with key at 0
$temp = array_unique($list);
$list = array_values($temp);
 
// Set the total number of vaild domains
$total_valid_domains = 0;
 
// we walk through the list and call this function
function isValidMX($item, $key) 
{
global $total_valid_domains;
if ( checkdnsrr ( $item, "MX" ) )
{
echo "@".$item." ";
$total_valid_domains++;
}
}
 
// Call isValidMX on each domain
array_walk($list, 'isValidMX');
 
echo "<br /><br />!!EOF<br />Total valid domains: ".$total_valid_domains
 
?>

3) collect the output and save it for whatever use...

[fraser]

mx.servers rather than domains?

After playing around with a quick tool i made to check also the MXrecords for the domains collected, i have found somthing rather interesting...

An awfull lot of free-email providers use the same host and the same mx.servers!!! this means that rather than banning by domain, you could ban by mx.server and have a hell of a lot smaller list. Also as an added bonus any new domains registered on these servers will allready be banned!

For instance, The Mail exchange server mx1.another.com (with a priority of 5) is used by 300+ seprate domains, who offer free email, as there ONLY mail server.

Basically I plan to compile this new list of free mx.servers and will post it/links here if anyone would like it.

Regards,

Fraser.

[BENSTER]

After playing around with a quick tool i made to check also the MXrecords for the domains collected, i have found somthing rather interesting...

An awfull lot of free-email providers use the same host and the same mx.servers!!! this means that rather than banning by domain, you could ban by mx.server and have a hell of a lot smaller list. Also as an added bonus any new domains registered on these servers will allready be banned!

For instance, The Mail exchange server mx1.another.com (with a priority of 5) is used by 300+ seprate domains, who offer free email, as there ONLY mail server.

Basically I plan to compile this new list of free mx.servers and will post it/links here if anyone would like it.

Regards,

Fraser.

If that list can be used in vbulletin, I'd like to have it please.

[Surrix]

To ban by MX Server would probably require a hack. The hack would have to resolve the domain name of the email for every new user to your forum. This would not be very fast, mind you, and might make the page timeout if it doesn't resolve in a timely manner.

[Dribbles]

any updates?