On Monday 12 November 2018 14:55, Dave Widgery <[email protected]>: > Hi > > Sorry if this is a bit off topic, but recently I have been getting quite a > lot (4-5 a > week) of emails pretending to be from get_iplayer, sometimes they show > get_iplayer in > the address field sometime there are one or more letters changed for example > get_xplryer > or get_iplaygr. > > The strange this is that I am not getting these on my current registered > get_iplayer > email address, but on a different address that I stopped using with > get_iplayer a few > years ago. > > I wondered if anyone else has experienced this? I am not sure if the mails > are > malicious or just spam as I have just deleted them without opening them. > > Regards > Dave
I expect someone got into the mailing list at some point and harvested email addresses. What you can do about it depends largely on your OS and email setup. For windows, if you can set filters in your client to check that spam header or anything else that looks suspicious it might help. For anything *nix use something like spamassassin and forward your mail to it and/or the same with procmail as the first step. I maintain an SMTP server so I'm used to seeing 100s of these every week. Using block lists and greylisting helps to cut out 99% of it. -- Az _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
