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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by CRConrad on Saturday June 19, 2021 @08:58AM (#27560069)
> That has exactly zero relation ship to your name being in their mail distribution system.

Seems it has some relation after all: If your name isn't in the system, you wouldn't receive the result of the template being applied: Somewhere a bit higher in the code than your example, up among the headers, there's a bit like "to:{emailaddress}".

I mean, what is sending mail to non-subscribers related to, if not the contact data of those non-subscribers being in the sender's mail distribution system?

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Re:HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users by kortilla on Sunday June 20, 2021 @04:02PM (#27573396)
No, you’re getting confused. An email list management system has far different data than the system that dispatched the fucked up template to it. Additionally, whether or not someone is an active subscriber no impact on them being in the mail system in general.

The whole point is that the piece that screwed up and pushed this template would have no PII access itself.

Beyond it being PII, it’s just how you sanely design these types of mass email/sms/push notification distribution system.

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