Strange Email Address Being Used?

[⭐ Alex ⭐]

Hello everyone. Appreciate help with this odd problem.

Once in a while, I get large number of Abuse complaints from Comcast regarding thread notifications. This happened last night with many thread notifications (to different users I assume). The notification from Comcast shows this offending email address: f55c1b21f62ba5f57743eac74ff63e6a@comcast.net reported in the "inline.txt" abuse message. Naturally there is no such email address in the system. It appears that a GUID is substituted for email address???

Meanwhile Amazon SES has paused my email sending account. I tried blocking the address on their system but they won't let me do that while the account is paused! I am escalating this to them.

I imagine this is either a bug in Xenforo or Comcast is reporting this incorrectly.

Appreciate any help on how to investigate this further.

Could be another longshot but, have you considered just using a bulk email verifier to check if all your member emails are deliverable? It could be that a few of your members' comcast emails no longer exist and you're trying to deliver to an inexistant mailbox thus comcast is flagging you.

Even better, get a list of all comcast emails in your system and do a bulk email verification. Maybe this addon would help, you could do a bulk verify on all accounts with comcast emails.

[OzzModz] Email Validator: Usebouncer.com

Apr 1, 2023

Adds integration with Bouncer email verification service

• Painbaker
• Add-ons [2.x]

EDIT: Oh right this was the cheap email verifier someone on this forum found: https://www.millionverifier.com/#prices

And the XF thread it came from: https://xenforo.com/community/threa...on-cleaning-user-accounts.221329/post-1680399