GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.

On a GitHub repo that I was watching, some Chinese spammers created 60,000 issues.

The result seems to be a queue of 60,000 emails, steadily hitting my inbox for two days straight.

No amount of settings changes on GitHub makes a difference.

Nice work GitHub!

14 points | by colonelspace 20 hours ago

4 comments

  • gus_massa 2 hours ago
    No idea what is happening, but ... What is the time recorded in the headers of the email?

    In 2020 we had a weird Moodle server swap in the university. The server was sending confirmation emails when the users asked for it, but Yahoo! accepted only a few per day. So most messages were stored in the intermediate email server until the 5 days time to live expired.

  • allinonetools_ 18 hours ago
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    • colonelspace 16 hours ago
      I unwatched the repo yesterday, but that has had no effect. Also changed my notifications email, also no effect.

      I have the emails going straight to trash.

      35k emails so far, deleted about 10k yesterday.

      My inbox is functional so it’s not a big deal, but it’s surprising this activity is not caught by a spam filter or something.

      ~45k emails (so far) to one email? Totally normal human activity according to GitHub.

  • SophieVeldman 10 hours ago
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  • truepricehq 20 hours ago
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