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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Scott, Qu Min, and all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">There’s a long history to this. What has happened is that, over the years, more and more of the free email services have started blocking
the CQPweb signup emails. Not sending them to spam – blocking totally.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">It began about 6 years ago with Yahoo if I recall correctly, but the problem really got bad a couple of years ago when Gmail started
blocking them too, Gmail being the most widely used such service.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I am not entirely sure how it is that these systems are identifying the emails as spam/phishing, but that’s what’s happening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">My best guess is that is because the messages contain a hyperlink that the user is instructed to click. However, I have not had time
to experiment with the effect of removing the hyperlink. If anyone does have time to play around, it is found on line 471 of useracct-lib.php.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">ANYWAY</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">. To present
concerns. I have just committed an update with a new configuration variable:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">## If true, the account-creation process requires entry of a verification code sent by email.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"># $account_create_verify_email = true;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">So if you add the following line to your config file,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">then the verification step will be switched off and account creation will always succeed immediately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">(Requires you to be running the bleeding edge of course)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Unfortunately I can’t use this myself on cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk because email addresses are used to link new accounts to institutions –
which gives people access to various corpora. If I switched off verification, anybody could pretend to have an @lancaster.ac.uk email address and be given access to our non-open datasets. That can’t be risked for various IP / ethics reasons.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#156082;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Andrew.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> CWB <cwb-bounces@sslmit.unibo.it>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Min Qu via CWB<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 28 September 2025 05:54<br>
<b>To:</b> ssadowsky@gmail.com; Open source development of the Corpus WorkBench <cwb@sslmit.unibo.it><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Min Qu <qumino2@gmail.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [CWB] Retaining sign-up requirement WITHOUT confirmation e-mail<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Same issue here. It's mentioned on <a href="https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/">
https://cqpweb.lancs.ac.uk/</a> as well.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 11:58<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Scott Sadowsky via CWB <<a href="mailto:cwb@sslmit.unibo.it">cwb@sslmit.unibo.it</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Sep 24, 2025 at 10:12<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM Scott Sadowsky <<a href="mailto:ssadowsky@gmail.com" target="_blank">ssadowsky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In something like five years I have never gotten my CWB server's confirmation e-mails to be delivered to those who want to open an account more than very, very sporadically. Undoubtedly a me problem, but I haven't been able to solve it,
and a lot of people just give up at that point, so I'd like to eliminate the confirmation e-mail requirement while retaining the sign-up requirement. It doesn't guarantee much, but at least it's something, and is occasionally useful for getting in touch with
good-faith actors.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">How do I do this, though? Unless I'm reading the manual wrong, it seems to be an all-or-nothing affair.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks in advance!<br>
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