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Show me where anyone said they expect something that exaggerated.  Please don't be insulting by suggesting that the *reasonable* requests made are in fact completely, completely different *unreasonable* ones.

If I knew of a lightweight commercial forum software, I would have bought it already.  I'm open to suggestions if you know of any.

No, I'm not so stupid that I don't understand that I can't use a product until it's finished.  What I was trying to say was that the Trac pages are not especially useful in understanding how much remains.  The % finished on Trac is only the raw number of tickets completed, but since some tickets take longer or shorter than others to complete, Trac is essentially useless for end users to get an idea of how much remains.  If Trac tells you everything you want to know, great, go use it and stop insulting people who prefer to receive more meaninful updates every once in a while.

YES!  Yes yes yes yes yes!

And I don't buy the weird idea that giving occasional infrequent updates would detract significantly from development time.  A single weekly post doesn't take any more than five minutes, and would go a long way towards placating the user base.

I don't think anyone is asking for firm deadlines or daily updates -- just a general idea of how things are going on occasion (e.g. % completed), along with what challenges remain.  This isn't a huge request.

Spam is definitely a concern.  I'm using 1.2 and a CAPTCHA plugin which prevents most automated spam, but I still get some spam, some of which is human-generated, but some of which still could be automated (hard to tell).  If Flux had a "Moderate user's first post" feature like some other forums, I imagine I could catch 99+% of spam that way before it hit the board, but there's no such feature.  For now I'm stuck with finding spam after it happens, which is a extra pain because my forum emails recent posts to a mailing list every day (homegrown script) and I might not catch the spam in time, and the email recipients are really sensitive to spam, naturally.  I'd like to upgrade to the latest 1.3 SVN version of Flux but I don't think there's even a CAPTCHA for that, so that would be a step backwards.

So in my mind, neither the latest release version (1.2.something) or the development version (1.3 SVN) is suitable if spam is a concern.  Once 1.3 gets to the RC (Release Candidate) stage then we can expect a CAPTCHA plugin, but I don't think I've seen any plans for a Moderate First Post plugin.  And there's no telling when 1.3 RC will be out anyway.  The initial release date was supposed to be around June so it's about four months late and ticking, and the developers haven't given any ETA's for when it will actually be released.

I wish I had a more uplifting answer, but I'm just trying to be honest.  Maybe two months from now we'll have an RC version, CAPTCHA, and Moderate First Post... or maybe we'll have none of those things.

I agree, adding this seems common-sense.

So, um, is there an ETA for 1.3 Beta 3?

Okay, I may have fixed the problem.  I didn't see that to disable SMTP auth I had to remove the entry from the server field too (I'd just emptied the username/password fields).  I blanked out the server field and tried to register a Yahoo address and Flux didn't give me any errors, but it didn't send out the confirmation message, either.  (And it's not in the Spam folder.)  I then tried registering a user with a different Yahoo account and that user got the confirmation message.  I don't know why the first confirmation message wasn't sent, but I'll hope it was a random fluke.  If not then I guess I'll be back here....

SPA is a security option when setting up a POP3 client, if required by the server.  Here's more:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Pas … entication

The domain is on the same server that FluxBB is on, so I'm not sure that's the issue.

Incidentally, I just discovered that I'm able to get Flux to send out the confirmation message if the user's email address is on the same server, but if the user is on a different domain, then I get the error.