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nshki / naisho

Send personal data deletion request emails to hundreds of data brokers at once.
https://naisho.app
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Bouncing emails from list June 20 #19

Open tecrogue opened 3 months ago

tecrogue commented 3 months ago

The following address responded with at 550 5.1.1 email account does not exist:

And the following bounced with a 550 5.4.1 recipient address rejected: Access Denied

tecrogue commented 3 months ago

Additionally operations@checkpeople.com bounced with:

We're writing to let you know that the group you tried to contact (Operations) may not exist, or you may not have permission to post messages to the group. A few more details on why you weren't able to post:

  • You might have spelled or formatted the group name incorrectly.
  • The owner of the group may have removed this group.
  • You may need to join the group before receiving permission to post.
  • This group may not be open to posting.
tecrogue commented 3 months ago

privacy@jdmlistservices.com

550 5.7.1 : Recipient address rejected: User email address is marked as invalid.

nshki commented 3 months ago

Thanks for opening this issue! These ones are a bit tricky, as they're pulled directly from each company's privacy policies (with the exception of operations@checkpeople.com). For a few of the ones listed in that file, I've tried hunting down other email addresses on their websites and they either don't have others, or all the others also bounce.

It's difficult to think otherwise, but it sure seems like these companies are operating in bad faith by listing emails that generally reject incoming mail.

Very much open to ideas here.

nshki commented 3 months ago

I took some time to look at the privacy policies of the companies you noted here, and all of them with the exception of jdmlistservices.com have since updated their email addresses in their respective privacy policies from 12 days ago, which is really bizarre. I wonder if email addresses are possibly getting cycled in their privacy policies.

I manually sent them each an email and was able to confirm two valid emails. I'll issue a PR shortly to update the known list of valid emails.

For posterity:

I'm going to leave this issue open since I reckon bounced emails will forever be a thing with these companies and we still haven't solved for checkpeople.com or jdmlistservices.com, but thank you for opening this issue.