On Vi, 08 oct 21, 13:55:15, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > I'm still curious about what's actually happening here. Perhaps nobody > on this list knows, which is understandable, but if someone does > happen to know the details, I'd like to hear them. > > What I know so far is that someone at ovh.net is subscribed to debian-user > and has set up an auto-responder. Every time they receive a message from > the mailing list, they generate a response message. This response message > is sent with an envelope sender (MAIL FROM) address of > postmaster@vps268904.ovh.net and the same address in the From: header. > The Postfix MTA at bendel.debian.org logs receipt of the message from > "vps268904.ovh.net (mail.data3v.com [51.254.223.75])" according to > the Received: header which it adds. The response message has the Subject: > header "**stop**". > > The body of the response message begins with the email address of the > person who sent the responded-to message, in angle brackets. Then a > colon, a space, and a copy of the original Subject: header. Then a > newline, then about 128 bytes (I didn't count, just approximating) of > the original message's body, another newline, and finally the text > "Please stop the message. we have already unsubscribed our email address." > > (This sentence is clearly untrue.) Wild speculation: some subscriber with the domain (and e-mail) hosted at ovh set up some auto-responder annoyed by the apparent lack of reaction to (probably unsuccessful) their unsubscribe attempts. From their perspective Debian is the spammer :( Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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