Well, sort of a source of spam.
At times I've mentioned that I seem to see an increase in spam when I post to the evo list - mostly it's subjective and others have not seen it and I'm certainly willing to accept it is coincidental. However, recently I've seen lots of failed delivery attempts on my mail server. Nothing new about that, it's a regular occurrence. But these failed addresses are message IDs that have, obviously, been harvested from somewhere. Specifically, I'm getting log messages of the type: 2019-01-14 20:57:31 H=(mail.rentautos.eu) [85.14.240.55] F=<usly...@rentautos.eu> rejected RCPT <1421662613.17426.6.ca...@biggs.org.uk>: Unknown user (I don't think there's anything there that needs to be redacted! The hosts and From addresses change frequently.) Every single one of those message-ID type addresses are from mails I have sent to the Evolution mailing list. They are from a while ago - 2015 to be precise - but still, someone is obviously harvesting anything that even vaguely looks like an email address from an evo mailing list archive somewhere. I know there's absolutely nothing anyone can do about it, and these things are just noise in my logs, it's just interesting that it is evidence that someone/something has been harvesting the list and no doubt our real addresses have got themselves on a list somewhere. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
