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Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus? by ben174 on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @03:57PM (#14259433)
Sending everything to this mailinator address which oddly seems to be empty:

https://www.mailinator.com/inbox2.jsp?public_to=hhhhhhhhhhhh...

Maybe Mailinator has purged the box and is rejecting mail from it. Good on them.

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Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus? by justusthane on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @05:39PM (#14260393)
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think anything was being sent to that mailinator address.

From looking at both that source code and emails received by my users, the mailinator address seems to be only in the message header "to" field, which, AFAIK, doesn't do anything other than display in the mail client.

The actual recipient's address is in the envelope recipient field.

I don't understand what the purpose of that mailinator address was.

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Re:Ask HN: Google Doc email virus? by evan_ on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @06:44PM (#14260886)
It sends an email to that mailinator address, with all of the contacts BCC'd. mailinator shut it down very quickly but emails definitely went to that address.
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