Is it appropriate to use an email address given as a part of a donation to send a short thank you note, when the person making the donation through my website did not consent to me using their email address? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jul 29, 2009 - 14 answers

What is the best way to clean this mailing list of bad email addresses? Difficulty: No address cleaners, but I do have a snapshot - the results of sending a newsletter to the list, and the resultant bounce reports. I have this information in several forms.. [more inside]
posted by By The Grace of God on Jun 24, 2009 - 4 answers

If you want to send someone a classy thank you gift, e.g. wine, chocolates or flowers, what are the best options if all you have in terms of contact info is the person's email address? [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on Mar 31, 2009 - 7 answers

Can I have my phone automatically forward incoming text messages to my email?
posted by Maia on Mar 5, 2008 - 5 answers

ISP, OpenSource options that can forward emails to your phone/alternate-address, so that when you reply, the replies are sent from your email address (and not from your phone's email address), and threats of patenting said idea. [more inside]
posted by lundman on Aug 28, 2007 - 4 answers

What's the best way for someone with a common name to get a permanent firstname.lastname email address? [more inside]
posted by harkin banks on May 29, 2007 - 26 answers

Can you help me find my dad's work email address? My dad works for Northrop Grumman Corporation's Integrated Systems in Melbourne, Florida. [more inside]
posted by kellygreen on Feb 24, 2007 - 16 answers

I need to extract all the email addresses from my Outlook 2003 folders in order to send an email to a big bunch of people (trust me, I am not spamming). This program does exactly what I want, but it costs $29.95. This should be really straightforward, isn't there a free alternative?
posted by falameufilho on Feb 16, 2007 - 10 answers

What's the best response to an incorrectly addressed email? [more inside]
posted by _sirmissalot_ on Dec 13, 2006 - 19 answers

How can I determine whether or not an email address is real without the owner (assuming it's real) knowing that I checked it? [more inside]
posted by crapples on Mar 29, 2006 - 11 answers

Thunderbird filter: Is there a way to combine all my "personal address book" addresses and "contacts" in one place? [more inside]
posted by wordwhiz on Mar 14, 2006 - 4 answers

Perhaps a useless and/or redundant question, but... Sleazoid off-shore prescription drug pushers are spamming using faked addresses on my domain. Is there anything I can do to stop this practice, or am I just another cog in the great wheel of spam?
posted by Dreama on Sep 13, 2004 - 7 answers

Spam-a-lot: Are there spam filters that can reject phony "Mail returned" virus e-mails by comparing the "failed" address to what you've actually sent? Such hoaxes are dominating my daily spam quotient, despite my use of spam-blocker Razor. But it seems like these would be easy enough for a program to detect.
posted by inksyndicate on Jul 28, 2004 - 3 answers

Someone is spoofing email -- making it look like it's coming from me -- and offering to sell people computer equipment. It looks like this is a scam to collect ebay ids. I know about this because one of the guy's emails was returned to me (it couldn't get through to the person he was sending it to). I have his email address. Can I do anything? [more inside.] [more inside]
posted by grumblebee on May 19, 2004 - 5 answers

In the last three days I've had 150 emails - 140 of which have been message failures from AOL. They think I've been sending spam emails from random addresses on my domain to random addresses on their domain.

Strangely, I've had no complaints from people about how I am spamming them, but the domain is non-obvious and not advertised on the web. What the hell is happening?
posted by twine42 on May 15, 2004 - 6 answers