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How do you prevent people from entering in the wrong address, and thus a random person receiving your emails?

If it's just a one-off receipt, I'll delete it. If that business I never had any business with starts spamming me, then I mark it as spam. Second receipt, pisses me off, a third receipt from the same company gets marked as spam etc. If you want to send more than one email, ask for permission.

Unfortunately I have a few technology-challenged acquaintances still using my common-ish firslast@ gmail, but once I get them switched over, everything that inbox receives will automatically be marked as spam.



> How do you prevent people from entering in the wrong address, and thus a random person receiving your emails?

Double opt-in.

You cant just enter an email address to subscribe, I used to send you an email with a link to click to complete the process.

For transactional email this would be handled by getting people to either create an account or use Paypal for guest checkout. (this was 2012)




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