BlocklistEmailDomains

BlocklistEmailDomains helps you to specify bad domains from which sign-ups won’t be permitted. If you have already restricted your wiki to only allow emailconfirmed users to edit, but find that spammers sign-up from temporarily/disposable email addresses, you will find this extension valuable.

Installation

Download the extension code to your extensions folder:

cd extensions
git clone https://github.com/asdofindia/BlocklistEmailDomains.git

Enable the extension and set path to your blocklist by editing your LocalSettings.php:

wfLoadExtension( 'BlocklistEmailDomains' );
$wgBEDBadDomainsPath = "/path/to/blocklist.txt";

Make sure the blocklist exists at the given path. The format of the file is simply one domain name in each line, like this:

example.com
example.org
mailmenot.io
sharklasers.com
dynainbox.com

Configuration

Presently, the only configuration is $wgBEDBadDomainsPath as shown above. It has to be absolute path to a local file.

Important

Do note that this works only if email is passed in during account creation. You might want to set $wgEmailConfirmToEdit = true; in your LocalSettings.php such that it becomes mandatory to pass in email for sign-up. Read the documentation of wgEmailConfirmToEdit.

Blocklist

It is intentional that there’s no blocklist distributed with the extension. It would be difficult to maintain a continuously updated blocklist. You can find a blocklist online, like disposable-email-domains and set up your own mechanism to keep it updated.