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[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

I think you are a bit confused about the E-mail structure.

Everything behind the @ is the domain, on your case "domain.com" Before the @ is just a name that can be used as you, the domain owner, wants.

If you want to redirect all mail to yourname@domain.com, that's very easy to do AND you can still see the original e-mail address these nails were sent to.

So I assume for example Dropbox sent some commercial mail about current offers. Using that, he knew the old account and that it was signed up to Dropbox

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 months ago

If you want to redirect all mail to yourname@domain.com, that’s very easy to do AND you can still see the original e-mail address these nails were sent to.

And it's a great way to see who's leaking your email to spammers...

this post was submitted on 22 May 2024
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