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junk mail
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If I send an email with the address incorrect by just one character, I get an 'undeliverable' response.
How is it, therefore, that I receive loads of junk mail which is addressed to something other than my email address. How do these stupid people do it - and what can I do to stop it, apart from continually deleting it.
How is it, therefore, that I receive loads of junk mail which is addressed to something other than my email address. How do these stupid people do it - and what can I do to stop it, apart from continually deleting it.
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Some people have fixed email addresses, such as [email protected] - this will have to be typed exactly to reach its destination.
Other people have emails in the format [email protected] - in this case "anything" can literally be any combination of characters and it will reach the recipient regardless of spelling errors.
I suspect yours is the latter.
You could get a program such as Mailwasher, which lets you build up a 'whitelist' of allowable addresses - anything else would be flagged as possible spam.
There's not a lot you can do, unfortunately, except delete them.
Other people have emails in the format [email protected] - in this case "anything" can literally be any combination of characters and it will reach the recipient regardless of spelling errors.
I suspect yours is the latter.
You could get a program such as Mailwasher, which lets you build up a 'whitelist' of allowable addresses - anything else would be flagged as possible spam.
There's not a lot you can do, unfortunately, except delete them.
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