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Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue
From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor () tnetconsulting net>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:02:39 -0500
On 9/28/14, 10:42 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
My wife is receiving someone else's emails.
Okay ... so someone is sending to the incorrect email address that is a variant of my wife's GMail address.
The real annoying part is that someone used my wife's email address (sans dots) as their email address on Match.com. So my wife is now receiving all the notifications that are meant to go to that other person.
Specifically she is receiving emails for <first name><middle initial><last name>@gmail.com (no dots) when her email address is really <same first name>.<same middle initial>.<same last name>@gmail.com (dots). I don't know if this is a "feature" or a "bug", but either way, it's disquieting my wife. (Unhappy wife = unhappy life.)
*sigh* So this is a non-RFC compliant ""feature. *headshake*Does anyone have any Match.com contacts? I'll try going that route to get the messages stopped. (Including emailing postmaster@ and abuse@ to see if they can help.)
Please reply or email me directly at gtaylor (at) tnetconsulting (dot) net for additional details. Thank you and have a nice day.
-- Grant. . . . unix || die
Current thread:
- GMail contact - misroute / security issue Grant Taylor (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Royce Williams (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Mike Lyon (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Mike Lyon (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue ryanL (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Karl Auer (Sep 28)
- Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Grant Taylor (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Bacon Zombie (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Jay Ashworth (Sep 29)
- Re: Match.com contact - Previously: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Fraizer (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue John Levine (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Nicolai (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Philip (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Jeff Woolsey (Sep 29)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Alexander Harrowell (Sep 30)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Bacon Zombie (Sep 30)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue Royce Williams (Sep 28)
- Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue James Welcher (Sep 29)