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I normally blow by (Ignore and keep) the messages that pop up when I login as Site Admin... but they managed to catch my attention this time:
[Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:57:41 UTC, FreeToastHost System Warning]

Emails sent to the email address [ This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ] have bounced too many times and exceeded the FreeToastHost limit for returned emails.  The error information for the last bounced email is as follows:

Your email message to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. could not be delivered
and was returned to the FreeToastHost server. Details are as follows:

    Recipient Email Address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
    Email Subject: Your mailbox is Full
    Date Sent: 27 Aug 2023 03:57:02 +0200

    Diagnostic Code: 550 5.7.1 Message contains spam or virus. [1693101456-219347]
    Delivery Status: 5.7.1 securityerror
    Date Last Attempted: Sun, 27 Aug 2023 01:57:38 GMT

NOTE: This email address may be invalid or non-working and should be changed, deleted, or updated to allow delivery.
    Refer to the following user documentation for other ways that your recipient may be able to use to remedy this problem:
         support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/e...embers-receive-email 

If you have any questions about this, please visit us at support.toastmastersclubs.org.


This automatically generated message is to notify you that this email address ***has been removed*** from the FreeToastHost database to prevent it from causing further bounces.  Places where this email address was cleared are as follows:

Website Admin Email Address, 
Email Address in Email White List

Repeatedly attempting to send emails to invalid, non-working email addresses hurts the overall email reputation of the FreeToastHost system and will not be tolerated.

Please ensure that valid, functioning email addresses are in use to prevent further actions of this nature in the future.

Refer to the following user documentation in the future to ensure that your recipients can receive your emails:
support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/e...embers-receive-email

If you have any questions about this warning, please visit support.toastmastersclubs.org

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So I looked around, and indeed you had overwritten my email address with a no-email placeholder.  (I have fixed them back)
The problem is that my email address continues to work just fine for my day-to-day usage, and I see nothing on the providers's site (hover.com) that says I'm at any sort of size limit.   This was two weeks ago, and I've received much mail since.   So I'm suspicious of this event. and wonder if you were spoofed somehow.  (though stuff does happen)

Furthermore,  I'd like to suggest the concept of a backup admin email.   Or sending email to the President, if you ever find you are disabling email to the Admin of record.

Sincerely,   Dave Mitton
Webmaster Merrimack-Toastmasters  #508
 

Looks like your contact email address was spamed

Yes, several times recently. I don't believe there is a way to stop that, since it's a public address.
I've had to "train" my fellow officers not to react to these phishing scams.
I just didn't realize that FTH would be triggered somehow.
I even had my address in the white list.

When it is spam, you need to make sure you train everyone to block the from email using the link at the bottom of the contact emails.
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Unfortunately in this case... not there.

 

Right.  The spam block link is not included if the domain of the From address is the same as the domain of the To address.  That is the case here, so the spam link would not be included in this case:
You can always just manually add an email address to the Email Blacklist.  The spam link added to emails is just a shortcut added for convenience.

You don't know where this stuff is going to come from, I report about a dozen different spammers a day to my personal mailboxes, via SpamCop, but someone figured out you don't reject contact@...
Here is a snippet from the header:

Received: from mail0.invaldomain.com (mail.atasu-refinery-kz.com [80.89.239.82])
by toastmastersclubs.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id 38BD5ONe002865
(version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO)
for <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>; Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:05:25 GMT

You can still add the email to you club black list and that will help block them next time.