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Email Issues
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 6:35 pm
by zoneminder
One of my addresses is being used as the 'From' address in a spam burst. Consequently I am now being flooded by bounces, returns, confirmation mails and general crap to the tune of hundreds a day. As these aren't spam themselves they are not all getting filtered out so I am having to delete them by hand.
If anyone needs to get in touch with me I would suggest pm'ing me on these forums as the block delets I am doing may inadvertantly delete genuine mails that I don't recognise as well.
Apologies also if you have sent a mail and not got a reply. I may have already deleted it.
Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:00 am
by Flash_
This backscatter is a huge problem everywhere, it's incredibly frustrating.
Email is getting borderline unusable.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:32 am
by robi
I'd like to e-mail a forum user, is there a way to do that? Phpbb has a function to use an e-mail form. Is there a chance to enable it? Or could you PM me his e-mail address?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:48 am
by cordel
You can PM the user you wish to contact and they will be emailed that they have a message.
Sorry but if they don't have their email selected as pubilic, we will not violate that users rights and pass it out.
Regards,
Corey
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:14 am
by robi
cordel wrote:You can PM the user you wish to contact and they will be emailed that they have a message.
Sorry but if they don't have their email selected as pubilic, we will not violate that users rights and pass it out.
Regards,
Corey
Ok, thanks.
Phpbb's e-mail form doesn't pass out the e-mail address. It has two fields, From, and Text message. Just like sending a PM but it directly sends an e-mail, without passing out the address.
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:07 pm
by zoneminder
I get an 'email' button on all the posts. Does everyone else not get that?
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:12 pm
by robi
zoneminder wrote:I get an 'email' button on all the posts. Does everyone else not get that?
Nope. You as an admin always get everything.
That button will be available for regular users only if you enable the e-mail form in the admin panel. (pgpBB admin panel > General Admin > Configuration > User email via board > Enabled)
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:11 am
by zoneminder
Ok. I have switched it on for now. However as it's not been on thus far if I get a lot of complaints about email addresses being displayed (even though people can hide their own) I may switch it back off to allow people to adjust.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:18 pm
by MJN
Phil,
Publish yourself an SPT TXT record in your domain's DNS. I introduced one recently and the reduction of backscatter was nothing short of amazing - it practically eliminated it.
www.openspf.org
Mathew
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 1:11 pm
by robi
zoneminder wrote:Ok. I have switched it on for now. However as it's not been on thus far if I get a lot of complaints about email addresses being displayed (even though people can hide their own) I may switch it back off to allow people to adjust.
It's not working.
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 3:31 pm
by zoneminder
The buttons aren't appearing or it doesn't work when you click them?
Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 4:00 pm
by robi
zoneminder wrote:The buttons aren't appearing or it doesn't work when you click them?
It's like before: Buttons appear only for those who specified public e-mail address, and the link is a mailto: instead of a form that hides the e-mail address.
Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 6:49 pm
by zoneminder
It seemed to have switched itself off again. Try again now?
Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:06 am
by robi
zoneminder wrote:It seemed to have switched itself off again. Try again now?
Yep - now it's okay. I think this is pretty safe as the e-mail address is undisclosed anyway.