Clojurians Log v2
biff
Hello 👋 First, thanks for making Biff, it is potentially a good fit for my solo project 🙂 I want to start sending emails (for the sign-in codes) so I created a MailerSend account and added the API key However, I don’t understand why re-captcha is needed to send emails I had actually removed it because I don’t want it in my project, but now I cannot send emails I tried to look for ways to disable it and so on, but unfruitfully so far Is it possible to send emails without re-captcha, if so, how? Thanks 🙇
Hi! It is technically possible to send emails without recaptcha, but Biff's authentication plugin is set up to only do it if recaptcha is enabled. It's to protect you from bots: once you deploy your app on the public web, you'll start getting tons of automated form submissions. without recaptcha, those will all trigger an email, which will both use up your mailersend quota/cost you money if you go over, and it'll negatively affect your email sending reputation which will cause mailersend to disable your account if it gets too bad. so I highly recommend you keep some form of bot protection on any form that triggers an email. you don't have to use recaptcha though; you could modify the auth module to use hcaptcha or some other alternative.
Thanks for the quick response! I might give a shot at putting re-captcha back then
I disabled re-captcha, but I don't send emails unless a trusted user refers them (invite-only membership model). Maybe that's why I am growing so slowly 🙂