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Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: terriz on December 17, 2005, 09:46:28 am

Someone sent a spam message to a valid email address on our server. It bounced (no idea why), but more importantly, it caused ListMail to remove this address from one of the lists. Here is the message:

From: ListMail Notification
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:37 AM
Subject: List 2: Bouncing User Removed

A user has been removed from your list: Contributor Newsletter

Their information was as follows:

Email: <snip>
First Name: Amy
Last Name: Ewart


IP Address: Unknown
Ref. URL: Manually Added



---------- The bouncing message follows ----------

<snip>

Any ideas on why/how this could happen?

Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: DW on December 19, 2005, 02:44:24 pm

You should probably edit or remove your original post because it contains sensitive data.

This can happen if a spammer sends email to your bounce address.  The bounce script simply reads the 2nd "To:" line in the email (The "To:" in the headers of the email RETURNED by the bouncing mailer).  It's possible the script is taking into account To: headers even when there is NOT TWO of them.  I will check into this and let you know if I can stop it.

Regards

Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: terriz on December 19, 2005, 03:30:30 pm

Oops, thanks. I've removed the gory details  :o

Thanks for looking into this Dean.

Peace,
Terri Z
www.Solo-E.com

Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: terriz on January 11, 2006, 08:18:01 pm

Hi Dean,
Any luck on this? It happened again today...

Thanks,
Terri Z

Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: Angler on February 15, 2006, 10:08:22 am

Me too...

It's unsubscribing my own email address from my own lists. Any ideas?

Title: spam bounce being processed by listmail?
Post by: terriz on February 15, 2006, 10:46:16 am

This now happens several times a week. It always bounces the same address, which happens to belong to my VA, and what's really strange is that her address is already bounced...it just keeps giving us the message every time. Weird.

Terri Z
www.solo-e.com