VPPR Email Compromised

Hello, our VPPR email address is continuously receiving spam. We've tried switching the emails that are receiving the VPPR redirects, and the spam simply goes to the new email address. Is there a way to change the VPPR email address for our club? I assume the only way to solve this issue is to create a new VPPR contact. (Maybe VPPR1, for example).

Thanks! Emillie

1) we always require yout club number
2) no you cannot change the vppr email forwarder.
3) You can use the Email security tools to block the "from" email addresses
4) if you post the email headers we can see if we can block the email provider.

Hi Brian,

Thank you for your response.

1) Club #: 01390136
2, 3, 4) I think it's that the email address itself is on a spam list. But just in case it's a single source, here's the header from two emails yesterday:

Return-Path: <server@>
Delivered-To: emillie+spam@
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:22:54 -0400
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:22:54 -0400
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:22:54 -0400
Return-Path: <server@>

Return-Path: <server@>
Delivered-To: emillie+spam@
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:19:18 -0400
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:19:18 -0400
Received: from ([172.30.191.6]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) by (envelope-from <server@>) for <emillie+spam@>; Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:19:18 -0400
Return-Path: <server@>

That IP 172.30.191.6 is a faked IP as it is a non routable IP

The from email seems to have been removed by someone.

Yes... for the moment, we simply have no one assigned as VPPR. I was getting 8+ spam emails being routed through the VPPR email address every day. Then my email provider would block all emails from our Toastmasters club. Luckily, I'm a highly online person with many email addresses, so I've switched the email address in my account. However, I keep getting spammed.

That's why I was hoping to change the VPPR email address slightly. Right now, we simply don't have anyone assigned to that email address, which is a less-than-perfect solution.

Thanks!

Emillie post=98495 userid=59743That's why I was hoping to change the VPPR email address slightly. Right now, we simply don't have anyone assigned to that email address, which is a less-than

This situation has bumped into limitations of the FTH email forwarding system. This is why we have the blacklist tool and the ability to prevent creation of the public (officers and 'contact') email aliases.

Both of your goals can be accomplished another way;

1. Assign your VPPR and change their email settings in their member profile to prevent creation of the VPPR email alias.

support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/member-profile



You'll have to manage this as a procedural step every time a new person fills the VPPR role.

2. Create a club archive email. (e.g. QuorumToastmastersClub at gmail dot com)

support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/email-settings

Be sure to keep the account credentials in your club's FTH admin module (there's a place for it) so access is not lost due to personnel rotation.

You can use this as your public facing email account. It will have all the spam protection of the host system and you have total control to set up forwarding rules to route email to the current VPPR. (again, a little more management is needed to monitor the archive email account and ensure nothing that should get forwarded to the VPPR is idling in it.)