The spam did not originate nor pass through GMail's servers. It came via mail0.info-emailer.com [174.37.119.125], so no reason to think that the account has been taken over (their address book may be floating around in dark waters though).
The spam and spammer isn't really interesting though. I think it's more interesting that it was let through. The list software should do a bit more than a naïve string match against the "From:" field... On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:17:21AM -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Dec 1, 2014, at 2:36 AM, Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri wrote: > > > Um, the two addresses > > > > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > > > > (spammer) and > > > > [email protected] > > > > (not spammer) are not the same. > > Until you mentioned it, I was not aware that the second address you mentioned > was involved in this issue. I have not seen the original message, and the > copy in our archives does not show the full headers. It only shows the first > address. > > The second address you mentioned is not subscribed to the MacPorts lists. The > first is. > > Upon further investigation, info-emailer / flipora / flip / infoaxe appears > to be a phishing site. Clicking on a link in their email apparently causes > them to have access to your gmail account, which it then uses to spam your > contacts: > > http://geeksofgotham.com/2012/01/23/flipora-flip-infoaxe-spam/ > > -- Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri Bioinformatics Developer BILS, Uppsala University, Sweden _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
