Boxbe

If you or your members receive a message like:

"Hello member, Your message about xyz has been waitlisted. Please add yourself to my Boxbe Guest List so your messages will go to my Inbox. Click the link below to be added."

then your message's recipient has installed an application called Boxbe. This is an anti-spam measure that works as follows:

• The user installs the Boxbe application.
• Every email from a new address they receive triggers an auto-email asking the sender to verify themselves with Boxbe.
• The user can accept the sender in the Boxbe application, or the email gets marked as spam.
• The sender can also verify themselves directly with Boxbe.

The problem is that Boxbe sends an auto-email to every new address it receives mail from - which means one to every member of your community who sends a message.

See Wikipedia's article on Boxbe for background: Boxbe - Wikipedia

Communities that have received messages from Boxbe have generally advised the member sending them to remove the application, or warned them that they'll otherwise be treated as a spammer to the community and removed.

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