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I sent an email as the title says and keep receiving read receipts from people who weren't the intended recipient.
What caused this? How do I prevent this from happening again?
MALware
Posted 2019-11-21T17:01:57.763
Reputation: 21
I sent an email to one address and received multiple read receipts
Perhaps the recipient had forwarded your message to multiple addresses? – DodgyCodeException – 2019-11-21T17:23:22.523
@DodgyCodeException thank you for the reply. I didn't even think of that as a possibility. This seems to be what happened and I will look out for it in the future. – MALware – 2019-11-21T17:45:35.073
If the recipient forwarded this message to others, you are not supposed to receive another read receipt. Please check if you have configured any BCC settings. – Aidan – 2019-11-22T08:36:53.567
1@Aidan the message could be forwarded in such a way that it appears like the original message to the person it was forwarded to. Think of public mailing lists for example, where you send a message to the mailing list and it gets distributed to its subscribers. If a person manually forwards a message after reading it (perhaps what you were thinking of) then that's a completely new message that happens to have, as its content, the text of the old message, but is otherwise unrelated to the original. A mailing list, however, forwards the full message headers as well as the content. – DodgyCodeException – 2019-11-22T09:25:36.573