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Hide My Email: receiving (spam) mails on addresses that don't exist (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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I haven't been able to find any information about this online, so I'm posting it here.

I've been receiving emails TO addresses like @icloud.com.

I've checked all my hide-my-email aliases (including the archived ones) and I don't own these addresses so I cannot disable them.

I'm wondering if anyone else has run into this issue?

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 16 points 10 months ago (5 children)

You're being bcc'd.

If you send a shitton of emails to: blahblah and then bcc everyone else, all recipients only see the to:blahblah address.

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yep, if you’re not on the recipient lists, then this right here is the correct answer.

OP you can confirm this by checking the source or original message and check for the “delivered to” info in the mail headers to see which email of yours that it was delivered to. From there you can decide if it is something you can stop (I.e another privacy relay email), or, the more likely case, just not worth the hassle (I.e the real regular email).

[–] elvis_depresley@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So although the mail client says it was received by @icloud.com. When inspecting all the headers, I do notice my email popping up in there under Received: fields (I'm not posting the details for privacy reasons).

I'm not sure why my email client shows me a weird receiver email. But at least now I know what address is getting spammed!

Cheers!

[–] chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 2 points 10 months ago

Strictly speaking, mail clients can’t show the BCC field — technically they don’t exist on the receiving server, the receiving server only knows what address (yours) to be delivered to — so they only display the typical From, To, and CC fields. It’s one of those quirks of email standard and client implementations, I guess.

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