Unable to stop Wordfence Email Alerts

  • Resolved toprobroy

    (@toprobroy)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi.  I haven't used Wordfence for a few years now and recently I deleted a set of data no longer required from the host server, which I manage.
However, now I've started receiving alerts to my domain email address. [email protected]
I don't have that email address configured on the server, but it comes into my inbox anyway. Here's the header code below, to see if it helps anyone who can offer me any advice on how to stop this email being generated and sent to me.  Thanks

Email Content
Wordfence activity from
December 22, 2023 to December 29, 2023
This email was sent from your website https://registeryourappliance.uk/demo6 and is a summary of security related activity that Wordfence monitors for the period December 22, 2023 to December 29, 2023. NOTE: You are using the free version of Wordfence and are missing out on features like cellphone sign-in, country blocking and detecting if your site IP is sending spam. Click here to upgrade to Wordfence Premium now.


Message-ID
[email protected]
Date
Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:47:09 +0000
From
[email protected]
To
[email protected]
Subject
Wordfence activity for December 29, 2023 on registeryourappliance.uk/demo6
Received
by server.registeryourappliance.uk (Postfix, from userid 10006) id A95222044E; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:47:09 +0000 (GMT)
Return-Path
[email protected]
Authentication-Results: server.registeryourappliance.uk;
dmarc=fail (p=NONE sp=NONE) smtp.from=registeryourappliance.uk header.from=registeryourappliance.uk;
dkim=temperror header.d=registeryourappliance.uk
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on
server.registeryourappliance.uk
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=7.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,
HTML_MESSAGE,MIME_HTML_ONLY,NO_RELAYS,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE,URIBL_BLOCKED
autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0
X-Original-To: [email protected]
Delivered-To: [email protected]
Received: by server.registeryourappliance.uk (Postfix, from userid 10006)
id A95222044E; Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:47:09 +0000 (GMT)
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=registeryourappliance.uk; s=default; t=1703850429;
bh=YYp/S8HjAnihI+fkzyH4WSkFE92YfXGVdh5encaovW0=; h=To:Subject:From;
b=X5beVa60Fz3p9tcNT4MqXO6x0//nWnRD84FcZju/141IqLWy2DjqU3IEU2TqUvJj+
mP1cWPOlGB7XIjaCKx0mdgvip+wSGgyM66Wu3X0r4hmc86fEBYeN1e8ogh/5Iq/sHb
r0881T9mZvfL6aY9zhw/QPLDTuUhrnrDr8ELBJ54=
To: [email protected]
Subject: Wordfence activity for December 29,
2023 on registeryourappliance.uk/demo6
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 11:47:09 +0000
From: WordPress [email protected]
Message-ID: [email protected]
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.27 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-PPP-Message-ID: 170385042938.17799.11523009352993597301@server.registeryourappliance.uk
X-PPP-Vhost: registeryourappliance.uk
X-ZohoMail-Sender: WordPress

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @toprobroy, thanks for getting in touch.

    Wordfence emails are sent out from your site’s server rather than directly from us although if you’ve used Wordfence Central with this site in the past, you’ll need to disconnect the domains from there to stop receiving alerts.

    If you were only running the Wordfence plugin on your site without Central, we have seen this occur where customers moved hosts or migrated to a new server but the old version of their site was still active somewhere. It’s odd to hear it happen after a number of years unless some files were recently reinstated from a backup or moved to a folder that can still run and execute as if it were live.

    If possible, removing /wp-content/plugins/wordfence from your live site or any backup/alternative folders could help. You could also try restarting postfix or sendmail (whichever is installed) to see if any unwanted instructions can be cleared.

    Thanks,
    Peter.

    Thread Starter toprobroy

    (@toprobroy)

    Thanks for this. I think I’ve managed to stop this now from your advice.

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