sodiboo Feb 4
ugh. someone is signing up to like dozens of random accounts with my email address
Show threadsodiboo Feb 4
yeah so I thought this was targeted and was secretive at first but turns out nope it's super widespread.

these are all from Zendesk and I'm pretty sure you can filter them all with these rules here are some more complete rules. they adapted to a more difficult-to-filter spam vector. see replies
Show threadchaos ΘΔ& (it/he)
@sodiboo can you export that rule for us?
i haven't gotten an of these yet but i have only gotten like 2 genuine spam emails in the past 4 years so im probably not on any lists yet
Feb 5 at 8:21amWeb
Show threadsodiboo Feb 5

@chaos sure. here's the exported rule in the JSON format that Fastmail gives me.

{ "redirectTo": null, "conditions": null, "fileIn": null, "search": "header:\"X-Zendesk-Priority-Mail=Verification Email\" OR header:\"X-Zendesk-Priority-Mail=Signup Attempt\"", "updated": "2026-02-04T21:09:49Z", "created": "2026-02-04T21:07:51Z", "showNotification": false, "name": "Zendesk signup spam", "combinator": "any", "snoozeUntil": null, "skipInbox": false, "markRead": false, "markSpam": true, "previousFileInName": null, "discard": false, "markFlagged": false, "stop": true }
not sure this is what was wanted? it doesn't feel very portable. either way, the image (or the alt text) should be sufficient to input an equivalent rule into any mail filtering interface.

Show threadchaos ΘΔ& (it/he)Feb 5
@sodiboo it's a json-encoded version of a sieve rule so its reasonably portable
we use fastmail so we can just add it as is, but moving to self hosted mail eventually