I got three emails in two minutes from noreply@plex.tv to join some random person’s Plex Home. How can I block these unwanted requests? Not only do I not appreciate these emails from Plex, but I also don’t like that the only option to click in the email is “ACCEPT”.
From what I understand, if I had somehow (mistakenly or accidentally) clicked to accept this invite that my Home would be destroyed. That seems like a terrible idea. Is there no option to block this (or all) invites?
You are assuming that it’s actually Plex that is sending these emails. As I said, anybody can spoof the From address to make it look like it’s coming from any place. True this probably isn’t spammed with spoofed email addresses but it’s possible. I get a lot of spam like this, pretending to be from a legit business - usually phishing attempts. IOW you could have an option to block these kinds of invites and still get them from non-Plex spammers.
Spam is understandable. However, it’s quite possible - based on the description of the OP’s email - that it is a legit invite sent by Plex to some random person’s server. If that someone can continually use Plex’s interface to send invites to their (spammers) server to the OP’s email, these are all “legit” emails, not spam or spoof emails. Since outright blocking Plex emails would be not a good thing (Plex isn’t a scammer, and they may want to get emails from plex in the future), they are simply asking for a way to have Plex BAN the ability for this person to spam invites using the Plex services.
It seems to be a legit email…NOT spoofed. The only option is a button that says “I ACCEPT” and the link is a plex.tv URL. I’m not sure what the person would gain other than trolling me by destroying my own Plex Home. I’m not really looking to have this specific user “Banned” from making these requests, though that should be considered if they are doing it with the intention of screwing other people over. Rather, I would like the ability to block all invites like this because I don’t ever see myself wanting to join another Plex Home. Apparently, the Home invites can be email or username. Since it looks like other users cannot see my email address, this person must have gotten my username here and sent an invite using the Plex Home settings in Plex Server.
True. One thing for sure is this was not done by accident. This person had to copy pasta my username from here into the Home Invite section of the Plex Server settings.
It’s an email. Not a website modal popup.
A button “I decline” would do nothing in an email.
The right reaction is to use the “delete” button of your email client.
Not sure how you determined that “if I had somehow (mistakenly or accidentally) clicked to accept this invite that my Home would be destroyed” which seems to be your basis to assume he has nefarious intentions. How would accepting an invite “destroy” your Home?
However, I find an effective means for dealing with nefarious people if indeed they are nefarious is to tell them to f off and then block 'em! Works for me - every time. YMMV
Please Note: We show that you are already part of a Plex Home. If you accept an invitation to join another Home, you will leave any current Home. If you are the admin of that Plex Home, then it will be deleted, causing other members to leave and any managed users to be deleted.*
There are also several thread here and on reddit about it. Here’s some examples:
While it could be an accident, I feel like someone is up to something. Do you accept invites from total strangers to many things? Are strangers on the internet usually people you trust?
But yeah, your suggestion of blocking all emails from Plex has been the best suggestion so far.
Call me strange but I would think if it were truly nefarious as you allege then they wouldn’t bother to place that warning in the email.
Do I accept invites from total strangers to many things? You have me all wrong. Hell, I don’t even accept emails from total strangers! I implemented my own spam filters some 20 years ago or so and it works by rejecting all emails until and unless I’ve allowed you to email me. That should answer your second question.
BTW, my spam filters reject emails sending them back to the sender in a way they can register themselves. They are then whitelisted and future emails come through automatically. But if I then get spam or phishing s.h.i.t, or if I just don’t like them, I put them on a list to reject all future emails from them. I implemented these spam filters because as a domain owner who doesn’t hide his email address I get between 100-300 email messages each and every day since around 1998! With this system only a tiny percentage trickle into my inbox and by and large they are all from non-spammers/phishers - IOW people and businesses I know and trust.
It would help if you paid more attention to the thread. We’ve already established that the emails are legit emails from Plex.
That’s part of the problem. It’s an email sent BY PLEX on behalf of the user when they send an invite via the Plex Home settings of Plex Server.
I’m addressing it here because I see it as potentially being abused and wanted to know if there was a way I was missing to block these type of invites. Apparently, there isn’t so I guess if it gets to the point where I get these more regularly, I may just have to block Plex emails.
I disagree. We have not established that the emails are legit from Plex rather you simply dismissed the possibility that they are spam/phishing attempts. Are you right? Probably but is not an established fact.
Look if you don’t want to join somebody else’s Plex home then just delete the email. It’s that simple. You’ll have as much luck getting Plex to change things as you would getting thousands of businesses who send emails with the “noreply” moniker. It’s a stupid practice that businesses now adopted. How dare they assume that I must read their email but they will not read my reply. It’s a horrible way to do business.
There is no real way to deal with such a problem - when somebody sticks their fingers in their ears saying “I’m not listening” you pretty much can’t do anything 'cept continue to be bombarded or ignore them. Ignore it. Move on. Nothing to see here.
Plex should just send the email with the sender’s email address - after all, they initiated the action so they shouldn’t be hiding behind anything. That’ll never happen though. Either that or put some text in the subject like “[Plex Home Invitation]” and you could perhaps filter on that.
