Thread:Support/Sudden email flood/reply (19)

Has this problem been solved or why has it been closed? I'm now seeing that my E-mail account suddenly and unexpectedly has been flooded with e-mails (I don’t look into my e-mail account every day), and my first reaction is, that I perhaps have to remove my E-mail address from the preferences to get no mails anymore, if this is, what has to be expected. First message came in 19.08.12 23:20 about a new theme on this page. I haven’t changed my preferences since my first log-in here, and the options "E-mail me when a page or file on my watchlist is changed" and "E-mail me on replies to a thread I am watching" are still off all the time since then. So why have I been flooded with e-mails I didn’t want to get? Is there any explanation for that anywhere?

Since I don’t know, if this problem really has been solved or might occur another time in the future, I have removed my e-mail address from my preferences to get no e-mails anymore, cause I can’t control my e-mail box every day, if there occurs such mail spamming again.

I’ve got nearly 60 mails in one day, and I should have gotten only mails, if there are messages on my talk page (there weren't any), or the newsletter which comes in only once a month I think. So now I will not get any newsletters or messages about new messages on my talk page anymore. I don’t know, why there has been such a mail spamming, but I would like to get some kind of explanation for that. So why is this thread closed now? Shall everyone just remove their mail addresses from the preferences to avoid future e-mail spamming?

I always thought that translators are asked to please add an e-mail address because of the newsletter. But then you can’t use that address to spam all these mail accounts with other mails. You won’t get people to receive newsletters, if you do so, that’s for sure. I must admit that I’m very astonished about this, and that I wouldn’t have expected this before.