mysociety/fixmytransport

Temporarily suspend the "Unmatched incoming message" emails

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mhl commented

As discussed in email and with @crowbot:

I'm afraid there's not an obvious great solution to this at the
moment. To explain what's happening, somehow the computer (or
email account or addressbook) of someone who has that campaign
address has been compromised by a spammer. Since the campaign
was getting spam that was immediately being published online,
Louise changed the campaign key so that it's only an approximate
match, so they end up as "Unmatched incoming message"s to be
dealt with manually.

What I'm going to do is to disable the sending of those emails
for the moment - people look at the admin interface pretty
frequently, and legitimate emails going to that address are
reasonably infrequent. This is a temporary measure, until we
can find a better solution that wouldn't adversely impact the
functioning of the site, but should reduce the irritation for
the moment.