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Your MX Helped Catch A Harvester -- I do not see it on the dashboard

Author: J.P. (9 Nov 09 3:45am)

So, I got an email from messenger (at) projecthoneypot.org that my MX helped to catch a harvester. However, when i go to the Dashboard, the "Harvesters You've Helped Catch" and "Comment Spammers You've Helped Catch" in the top right still say None.

When will that get updated?

Also, when I responded to that "Your MX Helped ..." email the last time in happened, asking this very question, I never got any answer.

Re: Your MX Helped Catch A Harvester -- I do not see it on the dashboard

Author: M.Prince (11 Nov 09 12:17am)

So a couple things.....

1. MXs are only for catching email spammers, not comment spammers, so it would not show up there.
2. The Dashboard actually only reports the IPs that have been caught by your own honey pot, not by any donated MX. We are working on fixing this, but it's a surprisingly time consuming database call in order to pull the list of IPs that your MX has caught.
3. You will still get the email and credit toward being in the top Project Honey Pot users based on the IPs your MX helps catch, you just won't see the list of those IPs on your dashboard.

This is on the list of things to fix. We're been investigating it off and on for a while. Unfortunately, based on the structure of the database, it's harder than it would seem.

Sorry for the confusion.

Matthew.