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Hey all...

Not sure if you know about or have any reccomendations as to how to handle this problem, but I've been getting inundated with strange spam of late. One such example is pasted blow... I get about twenty-five variations of it a day. It's somewhat disconcerting. Any clues? Thanks!

1eaKOyO9JE7f 5pqCBKt75TzBl ppppfnlhM7

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This email was sent by KHQX2vNVyQ (PaGBh@Yw5E5FG.com), a user of ilXor.com.
http://ilx.wh3rd.net/index.php

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 September 2006 11:45 (twenty years ago)

have you unticked the box in settings by "Allow registered users to send webmail to this address"?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:18 (twenty years ago)

It's always been unticked.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:26 (twenty years ago)

:( then it's a matter for the site admins. any ideas?

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 September 2006 15:33 (twenty years ago)

I've been getting similar spam lately too, and the box has always been unticked for me too.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:21 (twenty years ago)

For now, it might be worth noting the ilx usernames attached to these spams, so their accounts can be deleted?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 18 September 2006 17:23 (twenty years ago)

Can't we turn off the webmail functionality?

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Monday, 18 September 2006 20:01 (twenty years ago)

that was my first thought, although I think it would also kill the 'subscribe to a thread' function.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 18 September 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

I can provide headers that seem to indicate a spider is abusing the webmail to spam if you want.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 19 September 2006 15:54 (twenty years ago)

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