Alakamin server has forums (for real this time)

[Tabasco]

Originally Posted by sorvani

Email confirmation is a standard practice for almost any service you register for. How is it a huge pain? If a user is too stupid to get their email and click a link they do not need to post anyway.

IP authentication is going to have its own problems as a lot of people have constantly changing public IP addresses from their ISP.

It's a pain maintaining IP reputation and actually getting your email sent to the player. If you're on shared hosting it's just about hopeless unless you have time to maintain feedback loops and RBL removal requests.

The IP check is done once at registration, so it doesn't matter if it changes later, it's only a one-time confirmation.

In any case, it was just a suggestion and I mentioned it because it has made my life a lot easier. Our initial forums were hosted on residential DSL and email confirmation simply was not an option.

[Davood]

i built my own email server and im following all (most?) of the rules for email servers.. so far only hotmail accounts are putting my sent emails into the junk box. yahoo, gmail, and everyone else seem ok with my server sending out emails.