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This dropbox forum is exploding. Fascinating to watch. As an aside, who knew so many people had "dropbox only" email accounts. One guy with 10 random letters/n

• jzse 14y ago
  Email standard lets you use a random string in the adress if you type + after your "name".. For examble you have adress hehe.haha@gmail.com, and now you can give dropbox hehe.haha+dropbox@gmail.com and still get the mails that dropbox sends to the same hehe.haha@gmail.com box while "send to" still remains hehe.haha+dropbox@gmail.com. This is the best way (that I know) to find out where your adress was leaked.
  • efdee 14y ago
    Since it's a standard, it's worthless. Any spammer worth his salt would remove everything after the '+' sign from the email address.
• timso 14y ago
  While the <email>+unique@domain trick is easily avoided by spammers (strip the +unique), an alternative (and likely what the user with the 10digit random email is using) is to use a personal domain name for a single user's email. The mailserver is configured to push <anything>@mydomain.com to a catch-all mailbox, and the unique TO: lines make for exceptionally flexible filtering/easy identification when a company "loses" your email address. While this is a thing, it's probably only common amongst folks who carry scars from years of adminning mailservers :)