GitHub has been sending me an email every two seconds.

#1

Post by colonelspace » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

On a GitHub repo that I was watching, some Chinese spammers created 60,000 issues.

The result seems to be a queue of 60,000 emails, steadily hitting my inbox for two days straight.

No amount of settings changes on GitHub makes a difference.

Nice work GitHub!

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#2

Post by truepricehq » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

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#3

Post by allinonetools_ » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 3:11 AM UTC

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#4

Post by colonelspace » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

allinonetools_ wrote: post #3

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I unwatched the repo yesterday, but that has had no effect. Also changed my notifications email, also no effect.

I have the emails going straight to trash.

35k emails so far, deleted about 10k yesterday.

My inbox is functional so it’s not a big deal, but it’s surprising this activity is not caught by a spam filter or something.

~45k emails (so far) to one email? Totally normal human activity according to GitHub.

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Post by SophieVeldman » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 10:37 AM UTC

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Post by gus_massa » Sat, Mar 28, 2026, 7:19 PM UTC

No idea what is happening, but ... What is the time recorded in the headers of the email?

In 2020 we had a weird Moodle server swap in the university. The server was sending confirmation emails when the users asked for it, but Yahoo! accepted only a few per day. So most messages were stored in the intermediate email server until the 5 days time to live expired.