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A site focussed on connecting and empowering people who share transport problems of different kinds.
http://www.mysociety.org/2010/03/15/mysocietys-next-12-months-fixmytransport-and-project-fosbury/
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Temporarily suspend the "Unmatched incoming message" emails #763

Closed mhl closed 11 years ago

mhl commented 11 years ago

As discussed in email and with @crowbot:

I'm afraid there's not an obvious great solution to this at the moment. To explain what's happening, somehow the computer (or email account or addressbook) of someone who has that campaign address has been compromised by a spammer. Since the campaign was getting spam that was immediately being published online, Louise changed the campaign key so that it's only an approximate match, so they end up as "Unmatched incoming message"s to be dealt with manually.

What I'm going to do is to disable the sending of those emails for the moment - people look at the admin interface pretty frequently, and legitimate emails going to that address are reasonably infrequent. This is a temporary measure, until we can find a better solution that wouldn't adversely impact the functioning of the site, but should reduce the irritation for the moment.