Sunday, November 25, 2012

Re: Email backscatter problem [was: Re: Is Vundle dead?]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012, stosss wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:
>>
>> I've been getting these for months. It's one of those "inbox
>> protection" schemes, where the sender is forced to click a link to
>> let the message pass through. It appears to be a mobile phone
>> mailbox, so probably it was errantly subscribed in the first place.
>> Can an admin take a look?
>>
>> Email is of the form:
>>
>> 13657...@139.com
>>
>> Where the local part (13657...) is a phone number. (A mobile prepaid
>> card, according to Googling it.)
>>
>
> I have been getting email from a admin@139.com with a lot of Chinese
> characters on both sides of admin. It is going straight into spam now
> and has been after the second time I got it.

Yes, the emails come from admin@139.com, but they're on behalf of the
13657...@139.com subscriber (so `admin@` is akin to `postmaster@`).

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Best,
Ben

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