[Box-Admins] [Fwd: Re: I am missing all emails from lists.squeakfoundation.org for the last few days]

[David T. Lewis]

Thanks Michael,

Forwarding to box-admins list.

Dave

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Subject: Re: I am missing all emails from lists.squeakfoundation.org for
the last few days
From:    "Michael Wayne" <service at msen.com>
Date:    Tue, November 5, 2013 3:07 pm
To:      "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com>
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On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:59:50PM -0500, David T. Lewis wrote:
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>
> Did the spamming from box2 look like actual spam (phishing attacks etc) or
> did it look like a large number of, or repeat copies of, otherwise
> legitimate messages?

It's all automated but I'd guess that it was trying to either
   1) send empty email
   2) send email to non-existant users.
It was not a direct attack.

> Folks, it appears that one side effect of the kind of SqueakSource failure
> that we experienced over the weekend is that we might inadvertently
> generate a lot of email traffic.

Likely some sort of "bad" email. Enough to trip alerts.