I haven’t been able to find any information about this online, so I’m posting it here.

I’ve been receiving emails TO addresses like @icloud.com.

I’ve checked all my hide-my-email aliases (including the archived ones) and I don’t own these addresses so I cannot disable them.

I’m wondering if anyone else has run into this issue?

  • @elvis_depresleyOPEnglish
    1•7 months ago

    You are probably right, but what’s confusing me is I don’t own the address that is receiving the mails. Say my address is a_name@icloud.com, but the receiving address is juenr5idsnw@icloud.com.

    Is there any reason I am receiving emails to this address?

    P.S. the receiving address is always different, always @icloud.com

    • @[email protected]
      2•7 months ago

      A bcc is a Blind Carbon Copy - so it means that anyone in that field is an invisible recipient.

      So i send an email with the following addresses

      To: [email protected].
      Bcc: five billion other addresses

      Due to how the BCC field obscures email addresses written i it, any recipients will only see the email address in the To field - their own is hidden. So it looks like you’re receiving an email addressed to someone else