This actually seems to work -- I was a little concerned that maybe their filter code would pick up my legit [email protected] address and strip the dots out...
Interestingly filtering to:[email protected] seems to also pick up [email protected] -- which AFAIR is some other guy and also not me. I guess maybe their filter code DOES understand what +string does -- it just does bad things with dots. Crazy. --e On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Elijah Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > This conversation has convinced me that I should go make a filter that > matches to:[email protected] , and push all of those into a box > labeled "probably-misdirected-email" ... > > --e > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:43 AM, Dana Quinn <[email protected]> wrote: >> +1 on this comment - I am always getting other people's email. It's really >> awesome when the other dquinn's in the world sign up for all sorts of dating >> services, and then use the wrong address. I leave my gmail account up on >> our home computer, and my wife was "nonplussed" to see all these >> notifications coming through. And yikes - it's been years since I've >> dated, there are a lot of weird dating sites now. >> >> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Smith, David <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Chances are, the other person just doesn’t know their own email address. >>> As someone with a very common name, I get things clearly intended for other >>> people almost daily; end-users are sometimes silly. >>> >>> >>> >>> David Smith >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crocker, Deborah >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 9:25 AM >>> To: Lopsa Discussion >>> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem >>> >>> >>> >>> So, why did they allow both accounts to be created? These are duplicate >>> accounts. Or maybe they didn’t and this other person just thinks that is >>> their account? They sure have used it in some sensitive places. >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *********************************************************************** >>> Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. >>> [email protected] >>> Systems Engineer III >>> http://bama.ua.edu/~crock >>> Office of Information Technology >>> 205-348-3758 >>> University of Alabama >>> Fax: 205-348-3993 >>> Box 870346 >>> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 >>> >>> >>> >>> From: Smith, David [mailto:[email protected]] >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 8:35 AM >>> To: Crocker, Deborah; Lopsa Discussion >>> Subject: RE: Help with gmail technical problem >>> >>> >>> >>> This is a feature, as far as Gmail is concerned. Firstnamelastname, >>> firstname.lastname, and fir.stna.me.l.a.s.t.na.me are all the same – they >>> implicitly strip periods from their addresses. You can use this for things >>> like subtle sender tracking (put the period in different places for >>> different senders, so you can see who’s selling your address to spammers). >>> >>> >>> >>> David Smith >>> >>> >>> >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Crocker, Deborah >>> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 8:18 AM >>> To: Lopsa Discussion >>> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Help with gmail technical problem >>> >>> >>> >>> I’ve got a problem with getting another persons gmail. I am >>> [email protected] and I occasionally get email to >>> [email protected] but this is different person. I discovered it >>> with a Vendor rewards account where I got an update and logged (had to >>> recover a password, hmmm) and found stuff I didn’t recognize. Searched >>> through a bit more and found a name and city. Person actually lives 60 miles >>> down the road. Then realized it wasn’t my email address. So I called the >>> vendor and the problem seemed to get sorted out. But it continues with other >>> vendors. I started getting facebook friend suggests for people I have no >>> clue about. Sure enough at the bottom of the email it says it was sent to >>> [email protected]. Recently got from another vendor, one which I’m >>> pretty sure the original enrollee would need to get. I don’t get email all >>> the time for this person (no messages from other persons). The errant >>> messages all say they were sent to [email protected]. >>> >>> >>> >>> So is it the vendors or gmail? I could see some company dropping my “.” >>> and sending my email to the other person, but why this way? Can guarantee >>> the gmail online help center doesn’t cover this one. >>> >>> >>> >>> Thanks for any help >>> >>> >>> >>> D. Crocker >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> *********************************************************************** >>> Deborah Crocker, Ph.D. >>> [email protected] >>> Systems Engineer III >>> http://bama.ua.edu/~crock >>> Office of Information Technology >>> 205-348-3758 >>> University of Alabama >>> Fax: 205-348-3993 >>> Box 870346 >>> Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >>> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >>> http://lopsa.org/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dana Quinn >> [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators >> http://lopsa.org/ >> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
