8 Feb
2019
8 Feb
'19
11:45 p.m.
On 02/08/2019 03:17 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
deloptes composed on 2019-02-08 20:02 (UTC+0100):
It's about the occasional spam that shows up on the list with your address
as the sender. Deloptes quoted my post in full, which you quoted above.
Dan Youngquist wrote:
> Felix, have you changed your email password
since these spams have been
> showing up on the list showing you as the sender (last 6-8 months or so)?
> They originate from an Earthlink IP, but a different one than your real
> emails. So, I could be wrong, but my guess is your password was
> compromised and your account is being used to send spams from an Earthlink
> server, but not from your system. That theory would be falsified if (a)
> you have changed your password in that timeframe, or (b) you change it
> now, and they continue.
> All that to say, would you mind changing the
password on your email
> account, to see if it stops the spams?
You know in the Matrix, when agent Smith took off
his ear plug :) I bet
Felix has no idea :)
It could be he is running SMTP on public IP as well and SMTP is not
configured properly
I don't know what triggered whatever this is about. The deloptes post I'm
replying to doesn't link to any email I received since yesterday.