Re: Pawned - or not.
@Vince It is always interesting to have a look: Creating fake addresses and trying them has long been a thing. I remember some very bizarre prefixes before the @ that would never be real addresses in a million years, when, for a bit of an investigation* I (briefly) disabled auto bounce of unknown addresses.
* To trick malicious senders into thinking they had a few legit addresses due to non bounce, and then I could carefully investigate subsequent emails sent to those addresses (perm disabled bounce for them) for hints of potential attacks to be aware of
Biting the hand that feeds IT
