junk mail

[soak93]

If I send an email with the address incorrect by just one character, I get an 'undeliverable' response.
How is it, therefore, that I receive loads of junk mail which is addressed to something other than my email address. How do these stupid people do it - and what can I do to stop it, apart from continually deleting it.

[Aquariel]

Some people have fixed email addresses, such as [email protected] - this will have to be typed exactly to reach its destination.

Other people have emails in the format [email protected] - in this case "anything" can literally be any combination of characters and it will reach the recipient regardless of spelling errors.

I suspect yours is the latter.

You could get a program such as Mailwasher, which lets you build up a 'whitelist' of allowable addresses - anything else would be flagged as possible spam.

There's not a lot you can do, unfortunately, except delete them.

[chazza]

It is also possible that your email address was one of many in the BCC field so you cannot see it