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  • Resolved Mary Hone

    (@desertravenart)


    I received an email from someone wanting to be taken off the email list. When I went to the list of subscribers there were 468 new unconfirmed subscribers that I was never notified about. All the subscribe dates where in the past 2 weeks. How can this happen?

    http://wordpress.org/plugins/subscribe2/

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  • @desertravenart,

    Subscribe2 only send a “new subscriber” notification once the email is confirmed.

    The most likely reason you are seeing loads of unconfirmed subscriptions is because the forms on your site are being attacked by a ‘bot. Try installing the Bad Behaviour plugin to limit attacks and ignore the emails as version 9.0 of Subscribe2 auto deletes them after 4 weeks.

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