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• Four addresses, 80 percent of the mail: how unevenly an open mailbox is filled
  1930 archived messages to 89 addresses from the years 2014 to 2016: four addresses got 80 percent of the mail, 54 got exactly one, and for 70 it was over in a day.
• Why clicking unsubscribe on spam can make it worse
  With legitimate senders the unsubscribe link is mandatory and works. With real spam it only confirms your address is being read. How to tell them apart.
• Plus address, alias, forwarding, disposable: four ways compared
  Four methods of not handing over your real email address — with their strengths, limits, and when each one is the right choice.
• Why PDFs and Word files are not harmless
  Every filter blocks executables. Today's dangerous attachments are the ones that look ordinary. What can hide inside PDF and Office files.
• Catch-all: how one domain accepts unlimited addresses
  Addresses nobody had to create in advance. How a catch-all mailbox works, what it is good for, and the drawbacks that come with it.
• How your email address ends up in a data breach
  From sign-up to traded list: the routes by which addresses leak, what attackers do with them, and what you should do afterwards.
• Why some sign-up forms reject temporary addresses
  "Please enter a valid email address" — although the address is valid. How providers detect disposable addresses, why they do it, and what you can do.
• Tracking pixels: how senders know you opened the email
  An invisible image reveals the time, your device and roughly where you are. How it works, what senders read from it, and how to switch it off.
• Why email is not end-to-end encrypted
  TLS protects the route, not the content. What that means in practice, what PGP and S/MIME achieve, and why neither ever caught on.
• reCAPTCHA: what it checks and what it cannot do
  How Google's captcha spots bots, why it does not stop human abuse, what it means for data protection, and which alternatives are worth a look.
• Spotting phishing: eight patterns that keep coming back
  Time pressure, near-miss sender addresses, links that go somewhere else: the patterns that make fraudulent email reliably recognisable.
• When a temporary email address makes sense — and when it does not
  Disposable addresses protect you from spam and tracking. For banking, government and anything you want to keep, they are the wrong tool. An honest boundary.
• Why the first email sometimes takes a minute
  Greylisting, queues and polling intervals: the three reasons a message is not there instantly — and why the delay is usually deliberate.
• What actually arrives in an open mailbox
  We analysed the mail that reaches us: 181 messages, one sender domain, one subject line, five hours. What that says about how spam really works.
• How we prevent abuse on getSend
  Review before delivery, blocked aliases, banned file types and fixed retention periods: what getSend actually does against spam — and where the limits are.