i replied to “David” who is having problems in another thread. i used the quick rpely, and hit reply and my post got added to the end of the thread. perfectly normal
however below that it said
“There has been a mail error sending to xxx@xxxx.com with Error: SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.”
I have changed David’s actual e-mail address to xxx’s to protect his privacy.
The point however - it that evidently the forum was trying to e-mail him to tell him there is a reply to his thread - and since it failed it showed ME his private e-mail address.
As far as i am concerned this is a major security bug in these forums!!!
At no point should it ever be displaying one member’s private e-mail address to another member.
I can only assume that if any other other members of the forum reply to any of my posts - they will be presented with a similar message - containing MY personal e-mail address.
I would expect an immediate explanation from DRI as to how such a fundamental bug exists in their software!!![hr]
Oh you have got to be kidding…
when i posted that above - after i hit post just below the “saving” screen - were a string of 5 more error messages containing another 5 e-mail addresses!
this is a joke DRI, what the hell are you guys doing???[hr]
haha, i pm’ed jennifer about it - it displayed her e-mail address too (so now i know her surname ;))
Having worked on a bunch of forums, I’m pretty sure DRI’s running one of the common forum packages, so it might be something beyond their control, unless it’s already been addressed in an update that hasn’t been applied yet.
Regardless, glad you notified Jennifer so she can get the right people on it.
yeah i actually used to moderate a forum which used an almost identical looking package, so i wouldnt be surpised if this was actually exactly the same one.
however i cant see this being a bug which has gone both unnoticed and unfixed.
I get about 300 valid, non-spam personal emails a day and I haven’t seen a single spam email hit any of my Inboxes in well over 5 years now, so you’re free to repost my public email address anywhere you wish.
My mail server easily defers or catches and quarantines about 100-200 more a day on top of that, but not a single one hits my mail.
Here’s a graph from my actual mail server showing the results, and how incoming spam (which was previously being caught and quarantined) dropped significantly after putting graymilter in front of dspam:
Another issue I’ve found, is that the forums no longer send emails out, so clicking on the “Email me” checkbox when making a post, will not let you know when that thread is updated.
