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Originally Posted by danielf
Just a thought: The second newsletter was sent out on 24-01-05. Could this have been compromised in any way to show the recipient list?
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
That's what I was wondering too. I gather that the second newsletter was emailed in batches to members. With members reporting different email IDs at the bottom of the PayPal email could it be that the email IDs related to the batches of newsletters sent out?
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No - vBulletin sends the e-mail seperately to each user, i.e. each one has only one addressee - that's why it's done in batches - because it floods the smtp process with 100's of e-mails.
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Originally Posted by ianathuth
From what has been posted in this thread it would appear that the spammers have either got a list of email addys from the site server or from a source after newsletter emails have left the site server. Could another system that handled the newsletter emails be compromised and logging email addys going through it?
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That's an interesting thought - not likely once they have left the server as they are transferred direct to the receiving mail systems - but the servers mail system logs them - it's another thing to check.
It's unlikely we will ever know how - but a number of possibilities have been investigated and some changes made as a result.