Major Bug using the Catchall Email Method.
Anyone using the catchall email method on your web hosting?
I tried to investigate a lot about this matter and i'm really surprised on the result.
Test? All successful.
Blacklist check? All successful.
The messages are received in my default e-mail address. The messages are marked as READ so it means, it was already opened before.
- I tried to click some verification links in my inbox and it says messages like "Congratulations! Your email is verified successfully!". (It means, the verification link wasn't clicked before)
- I tried to click the verification link again just to make sure, but it says messages like "Error. The email is already verified." (It means the account is now verified)
I should be getting the second error (on my first click) if all the verification links are really clicked by the GSA SER. In short, GSA SER opens/reads the message in my inbox but it doesn't click the verification links!
Any thoughts please? I think this is why my submitted and verified links has a VERY HUGE gap.
I tried to investigate a lot about this matter and i'm really surprised on the result.
Test? All successful.
Blacklist check? All successful.
The messages are received in my default e-mail address. The messages are marked as READ so it means, it was already opened before.
- I tried to click some verification links in my inbox and it says messages like "Congratulations! Your email is verified successfully!". (It means, the verification link wasn't clicked before)
- I tried to click the verification link again just to make sure, but it says messages like "Error. The email is already verified." (It means the account is now verified)
I should be getting the second error (on my first click) if all the verification links are really clicked by the GSA SER. In short, GSA SER opens/reads the message in my inbox but it doesn't click the verification links!
Any thoughts please? I think this is why my submitted and verified links has a VERY HUGE gap.
Comments
I just checked my inbox, and most of the emails are marked as read, but I cannot find any verification emails. That's because I checked "Delete message when verification link was found". Hence, I cannot verify your problem.
But, I'm having problems getting enough Social Bookmarking links (used to be easy), and I'm not sure where the problem is. Captchas? Proxies? or E-mail verification?
Do you think it's really necessary to use private proxies on e-mail checking? I'm using my own hosting so I can't see any reason why I need to..
SER downloads the emails from your own hosting, then clicks on (or visits) those verification links. Hence, it will reveal your real ip, if no proxies are used.
I was running SER on my home PC, hence I need to hide my real ip. Now that I've transfered SER to a VPS, I think it's safe to disable it (i.e. not use proxies).
I've unchecked "Delete message when verification link was found" on a few projects, and I'll check back tomorrow.
GSA SER reads my inbox but it didn't click any of those verification links at all
Please do and leave some feedback. Thanks in advance!
@ohohRaii, did you check recent emails, or those which are more than 2 days old?...
I also clicked the links one by one and ALL of them says something like "Your account has been successfully verified!" but when I clicked it again, it says error message or the account is already verified..
Like this one: "We could not find the validation request you are attempting to verify. This is likely because you have already validated your account, or an administrator has validated your account for you. Please try to login with your registration details now."
I don't know if non-catchall email users also experience this one
https://forum.gsa-online.de/discussion/626/details-on-using-catchall-emails/p1
@ohohRaii, do you use random email name like this?,
%spinfile-names.dat%{.|-|_}%spinfile-lnames.dat%%random-1-9999%@catchalldomain.com
What is your "Maximum accounts per site"? Options -> Scheduled Posting -> Allow posting on same site again.
Looking at the .static files, where the usernames, passwords, emails are kept, I see it is a bit of a mess, and I really wonder how @Sven can keep track of how many accounts were created per site...
After running a new project for 4 days, my .static file ballons to 5Mb with tens of thousands of login info, some with missing emails and/or passwords. But, I've confidence @Sven will sort it out...
@ohohRaii, if I need 5 accounts per site, I'll setup 7 ~ 8 emails like this,
name01@catchalldomain.com
.
.
name08@catchalldomain.com
That way, SER won't go off creating thousands of accounts. Most or all sites won't allow more than 1 account per email. And I don't share emails between projects...
SER will only use 5 out of the 8 emails to create 5 accounts on each site.
But Sven did mention,
>please note that not all verification links are clicked. some are saved and clicked on first login when submitting.
So, after downloading and saving your emails, SER will click on your verification links when it's doing submission. But, we won't know when that will happen...