I’ve had several users report receiving PM SPAM from LinkedIn. These come in the form of emails sent to the special reply email addresses which are used by Discourse when notifications are sent out to users. E.g. replies+nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn@reply.example.com Somehow these email addresses are import…

This is due to LinkedIn stealing your address book and spamming every email address that you’ve communicated with. Not necessarily a bug in Discourse, but I think this may be worth handing in Discourse. Maybe a PM from @system ? We recently noticed LinkedIn attempting to use your account to post m…

I really think this is beyond a lot of users, they just press buttons when asked to… … by very carefully designed user prompts and on-boarding processes in products like LinkedIn. Educating a user about someone else’s product is not Discourse’s job. Sadly it’s probably just a matter of filtering …

I just had this happen for the first time on my site - how irritating. Not a PM but a post!

I just realized that this could be helped by putting expiration dates in topic emails and also closIng topics. Anyway it is a fairly rare occurrence so maybe no action is needed.

Just a note - I ultimately ended up setting the GMail filters to “delete” as “skipping inbox” wasn’t doing the job right.

Awesome - this solves my problem. Nice gordian knot solution. :smile:

FYI I just got another linkedin.com spam invitation, this time from someone in another language locale besides english… It got through to my discourse because the filter I created was explicit and the portuguese linkedin email uses a different email address. Now I’ve changed it so any matches to f…

[image] codinghorror: delete any incoming “reply” mails containing a FROM address that includes linkedin.com . Unless you have LinkedIn staff in your community. :slight_smile:

[image] downey: Unless you have LinkedIn staff in your community heh. at this rate, I’m almost thinking it’s worth muting any linkedin staff who might decide to join my community to be able to block these crazy messages. it’s bad enough that linkedin encourages this spamming of everyone in y…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) June 6, 2015, 7:17pm 7

Yes, I recommend you set the reply email account to automatically delete any incoming “reply” mails containing a FROM address that includes linkedin.com.

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