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I had a similar but less pleasant experience. I had decided to opensource an old side project of mine, that gets a good amount of users daily. And by that, it
by infinitone 12y ago
I had a similar but less pleasant experience. I had decided to opensource an old side project of mine, that gets a good amount of users daily. And by that, it was just initially to make the repo public. But I had totally forgot about the mail server keys- this was a paid mail server, so you can imagine my disbelief when I get an email of a $1000 bill and a complaint saying that I had sent upwards of 250k emails with what seemed to be a iOS mail app malware email. Luckily it was resolved within a week with support.
- andyjdavis 12y agoI'm curious. Did they excuse the bill or was this a $1000 lesson?
- infinitone 12y agoYup, it was credited as they checked the IPs of the server that was sending those requests. It was clear that it was malicious, also I had been a long time customer.
- hobs 12y agoTo be fair to you, part of being a paid mail provider is dealing with this kind of stuff on the daily, I am surprised they didnt stop it WAY before it hit that send count.
- infinitone 12y agoYeah, its weird because I was subscribed to a much lower email plan anyway. Somehow, that gave them the okay to auto-upgrade my account and 'release the hounds.' Also, this was a reputable email provider that many of you know of (i believe it went thru one of the incubators).