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A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Anytime you autoreply to email, it means a spammer can spoof the sender and spam you with hundreds of emails, which you will faithfully reply with "This address is not monitored" - but you're sending those replies out to people who didn't send them to you, and typically attaching the original message, meaning the spammers get a free spam reflection service from you - you sending their spam to all those people.

So please don't use autoresponders.

[–] kn33@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

Or only use it on domains with SPF set up for hard fail, and for emails that pass SPF