Re: [pear-webmaster] received Spam – any explanat ion?

From: Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 10:50:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [pear-webmaster] received Spam – any explanat ion?
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Hi Christian,

thanks for taking care, searching, finding and fixing the issue.

No worries about that particular leak, thats what disposable email
addresses are for – and glad we can avoid this in the future.

Best,

Lukas

On 05/26/2016 12:20 PM, Christian Weiske wrote as excerpted:
> Hello Lukas,
> 
> 
>> a couple of days ago, I received Spam with an email address that I
>> /definitively/ used solely on http://pear.php.net/.
> 
>> Do you have any explanations regarding this issue?
> 
> pear.php.net relays all mail via php-smtp2.php.net, which your headers
> indicate that this mail did not come via.
> 
> I searched with google for that email address and did indeed find two
> results containing it:
> 
> https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=de&q=%22pear.php.net%40lukas-pirl.de%22
> 
> 
> The bug report update mail contained your email unobfuscated in the
> "Updated by" field, where it probably was harvested by spammers.
> 
> I'll fix this.
> 
> Sorry.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Christian Weiske

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