Thread: Can I Simply Assume That Mail That Says It's 'From' Me is Spam?

quote: P.S. For smartasses like me, I mean email that has your address as the sender, but that you didn't send. But you can't easily tell that mail sent from you and to you wasn't really sent from you. I've got both my work and gmail account setup on my blackberry and send myself reminder emails occasionally and I don't pay attention to the sending account so sometimes it is to/from the same address. If you never do...

I have yet to find a single piece of legitimate mail that comes to me with my email address as the sender. If I want to send a bunch of mail out to people whom I don't want to know what other people I send it to, I would just put them all in the BCC field and send it to 'me'. Now that I think about it, I have never done this, but just assumed that's how it would work. So, does anyone get any legitimate mail with their email...

When I get email at work from "my work email", it is always spam and has always been spam. If it's authentically from my work email address, it would have my name in the "from" field. And not the work email address. So, if my work email is joebob@spazoid.wut and my name is Joe Bob, any legitimate email from me would show only "Joe Bob" in the "from" field and not joebob@spazoid.wut.

quote: I would just put them all in the BCC field and send it to 'me'. Now that I think about it, I have never done this, but just assumed that's how it would work. Why wouldn't you just leave the to line blank and only fill in the BCC line?

quote: So, does anyone get any legitimate mail with their email address as the sender. Never. always invariably UCE aka SPAM.