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The Art of Finding Anyone’s Email Addresses
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- abuiles 13y agoI wanted to contact people from some companies but their email was not in their profiles, I found this script in github https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester which looks for emails given a domain. Is super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company: first_name@domain.com first_name.last_name@domain.com Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly. This is perfect for doing customer development, also if you are doing cold reach outs remember to follow the CAN-SPAM act.
- clarkm 13y agoIf I ever get into a situation where I can't figure out the address, I just pick one of my guesses and bcc all the rest. Sure, they might think it's a little weird if they notice they're in the bcc field, but it sure is a lot easier than sending off a single email and spending the next few days wondering if it actually went through.
- hayksaakian 13y agohmm. I thought the whole point of BCC was "blind carbon-copy". Meaning the person would be unaware as to who else was sent the email?
- greenyoda 13y agoThey would know they were in the BCC field if the "To" address was not their correct address.
- hayksaakian 13y agoThe trick I've seen is to put your own email in the to field, and all destinations in the bcc
- mindcrime 13y agoIs super useful, even though It wouldn't give me the email I was looking for, it would show me the "structure" used for emails inside the company: Based on that I would just guest the email of the person and it used to work perfectly. I've used this technique a bit, but a word of warning... it's definitely not always the case that all emails in a given firm match "the structure". Usually most of them do, but I have found more than one company with a mishmash of patterns for whatever reason. Probably the most common thing I've noticed is that "important" people (CEO, etc.) may get a different email, and people with really long name (some Indian names fall into this a lot) may be truncated, or swapped out for just an initial. Still, other than paying for addresses from Jigsaw or Hoovers, this seems to be about the best approach I've found so far.
- anxx 13y agoRelated question: is there a limit on email address length? Like a real fundamental limit, not arbitrary decisions Gmail or Yahoo folks might have come up with.
- mindcrime 13y agoI don't know, but you might be able to parse the answer out of this: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
- chronomex 13y agoHeader lines are limited to 998 characters (1000 - '\r\n'). Subtract 'To: ' (4 characters) and one practical maximum upper limit is 994 characters including domain.
- elchief 13y agowell the minimum length is 3, and the maximum length is 254: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-valid-email-address http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximu...
- jimmythegent 13y agoThere is a catch-all address at my company that goes to our CEO. He forwards me headhunter emails all the time that are addressed to variations of my first and last name. :-/ I'm assuming they used similar tactics to try to find my address
- ternaryoperator 13y ago> He forwards me headhunter emails all the time that are addressed to variations of my first and last name. Sure he's not trying to tell you something? :-|
- jabbernotty 13y agoApart from "the right thing", one might see this particular behaviour as "quite polite". It is also better for the relationship. It signifies trust. And every time you hold something back (or lie) you risk damaging a relationship. In this instance, a recruiter might reach out to the employee some other way. The recruiter and employee would then figure out that the business owner may have withheld the mail, even though it was clearly addressed to the employee.
- lostlogin 13y agoYes. Do the right thing, you might get credit for it. Do the wrong thing, and sometime, sooner or later, it'll pop up and kick you in the arse.
- mindprince 13y agoTo verify if you have guessed someone's correct gmail address you can always do this - http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-plus-profile-google-contacts-privacy.html http://mindprince.blogspot.com/2012/12/google-plus-profile-g... Works for all those who have upgraded to Google+.
- madsushi 13y agoI hadn't heard of MailTester before; I have used the telnet/25 and RCPT TO: technique manually several times.
- danso 13y agoThis is a Hail Mary, but I've found some important email address by running a WHOIS on that person's known web properties. While he may have hidden his registration info for his personal site, he may have slipped up on his project sites
- ktf 13y agoI've had great luck with this, actually. At the very least there's a chance you'll find some dummy address that forwards to a real address, and get a response that way.
- msumpter 13y agoYou can also use tools like DomainTools.com to look at historical registration data, their data may be private now but could have been exposed previously.
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- UVB-76 13y agoAlternatively, pick up the phone, call the company they work for, and ask for their email. "Hi, I'm <x>, I'm trying to send an important email to <y> but it keeps bouncing. Can you confirm I've got their email address correct?"
- jsemrau 13y agoNorman? This is Mr. Eddie Vedder, from Accounting. I just had a power surge here at home that wiped out a file I was working on.
- micro-ram 13y agoMy BLT drive just went AWOL!
- chmars 13y agoRapportive asks for single sign-on access to Gmail. Isn't that somehow risky?
- adammichaelc 13y agoOr, if you have a small budget, you can just use this: http://www.insideview.com/ http://www.insideview.com/
- korg250 13y agoMan, what a horrible design this site has.