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| Thread ID: 105795 | 2009-12-14 19:16:00 | Find out where spam comes from | jonathan (15437) | Press F1 |
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| 839575 | 2009-12-14 19:16:00 | Hi there. I read somewhere recently that you add something to your email when giving it to a site, and then when you get spam it will show if that website sold your email. ie. say my email is johnsmith@gmail.com I am signing up to pressf1, where it says 'email' I put johnsmith+pressf1@gmail.com and when I get spam and it says 'to: johnsmith+pressf1@gmail.com ' then I know pressf1 sold my email to a spammer, or something. Anyone know? :spam |
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| 839576 | 2009-12-14 19:20:00 | I guess you could do email@domain.com?subject=SomeSite but anywhere that filters addresses with a regex will drop the additional part. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 839577 | 2009-12-14 19:22:00 | test+spam@gmail.com will go to the same address as test+whatever@gmail.com and test@gmail.com. | pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 839578 | 2009-12-14 19:27:00 | ok, 'cause I tried it with a xtra email account and it said it was not a valid email address. does it only apply to gmail? | jonathan (15437) | ||
| 839579 | 2009-12-14 19:31:00 | It only applies if your mail provider supports sub-addressing of that type - GMail, Yahoo etc do as far as I'm aware, but theres quite a few who don't also. | inphinity (7274) | ||
| 839580 | 2009-12-14 19:34:00 | ok, thanks | jonathan (15437) | ||
| 839581 | 2009-12-14 19:40:00 | I just found the website where I saw this. check it out: jamus.co.nz | jonathan (15437) | ||
| 839582 | 2009-12-14 19:45:00 | There's also the likes of mailinator, plus when you post your address in cleartext on forums, some places share your email address in your "profile", things like that ... | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 839583 | 2009-12-14 20:25:00 | It only applies if your mail provider supports sub-addressing of that type - GMail, Yahoo etc do as far as I'm aware, but theres quite a few who don't also. Anyone who runs a normal MTA with a pretty standard setup support it (even if they arent aware of it). For example sendmail (en.wikipedia.org) works this way unless you specifically tell it not too. |
razzarphenix (2626) | ||
| 839584 | 2009-12-14 20:38:00 | There's also the likes of mailinator, plus when you post your address in cleartext on forums, some places share your email address in your "profile", things like that ... I use trashmail.net and the FireFox Trashmail addon (addons.mozilla.org) to forward emails from a temporary trashmail address, to my real address. Good for dodgy web-forms. |
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