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[François Marier <francois@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Some users have reported spam messages being sent to them by mahara.org
users.

These spammers have manually created accounts on Mahara.org and just
emailed (via direct messages within Mahara) a large number of users,
copy and pasting the same code.

A solution would be to queue up all user-to-user emails (for say 5 or 10
minutes) and wait to see if a given user sends the exact same message to
a large number of users (say more than 5 people ?) in that time. If
that's the case, then the other emails should be discarded and a warning
sent to the site admin.

** Affects: mahara
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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queue user-to-user messages and remove duplicates
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593500
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Bug description:
Some users have reported spam messages being sent to them by mahara.org users.

These spammers have manually created accounts on Mahara.org and just emailed (via direct messages within Mahara) a large number of users, copy and pasting the same code.

A solution would be to queue up all user-to-user emails (for say 5 or 10 minutes) and wait to see if a given user sends the exact same message to a large number of users (say more than 5 people ?) in that time. If that's the case, then the other emails should be discarded and a warning sent to the site admin.