Why are my responses being sent back to me? #613
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Since I moved to ProtonMail from Outlook, the responses I've sent to messages sent to my aliases are sent back to me. https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy/files/14589010/%2B20240313T134.zip includes some a basic demonstration thread with personal information redacted. |
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RokeJulianLockhart
Mar 13, 2024
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The problem appears to be that ProtonMail automatically selects my default recipient's e-mail address as the from address when responding to it: For a reason unknown to me, this causes the message to be sent to me as well. This seems to be an issue with both ProtonMail's address selector (this behaviour does not appear to be possible to override) and the fact that AnonAddy's sending messages bound for that address back to me when I see no reason for it to do so (although I'm not familiar with its architecture). This does not occur if the response is not sent from the default recipient: |
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I've mentioned this at ProtonMail/WebClients#382 (comment) and sent a message to
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Brilliantly, this has been remediated!
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RokeJulianLockhart
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Please see - https://addy.io/faq/#im-trying-to-reply-send-from-an-alias-but-the-email-keeps-coming-back-to-me-whats-wrong |
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@willbrowningme, the opposite of what that describes is occurring to me: I've sent every response I've ever sent from aliases not listed in the recipient section (I use a https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5233#section-4 for my default alias, so they fundamentally can't match what's listed at https://app.addy.io/recipients if using GMail or Outlook). This problem solely occurs when I attempt to send a message from the address listed as my default alias. The messages I've provided should demonstrate that. Regardless, https://addy.io/faq/#im-trying-to-reply-send-from-an-alias-but-the-email-keeps-coming-back-to-me-whats-wrong describes is quite worrisome — have all the messages which were sent back to me not sent to their intended recipient?! If so, there should be a damn large banner at the top of the message explaining this. I'll need to resend an awful lot, if so. |
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If you try to send or reply from one of your aliases using an email address that is not listed as one of your verified recipients on addy.io then it is treated in the same way as if an external sender had sent a message to your alias. This is why it is forwarded to you. No those messages have not been sent to the destinations, you can check by looking at the replies/sends count on the aliases page - https://app.addy.io/aliases. If this measure was not in place then it would mean anyone would be able to send messages from your aliases. If you send me an email with details of a specific alias that you last tried to reply/send from then I can check the logs. |
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@willbrowningme, I've uploaded the messages I would want to send via e-mail in #613 (comment) already, but I've tried to send them via e-mail to you too. I hope it helps. Thank you. |
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The problem appears to be that ProtonMail automatically selects my default recipient's e-mail address as the from address when responding to it:
For a reason unknown to me, this causes the message to be sent to me as well. This seems to be an issue with both ProtonMail's address selector (this behaviour does not appear to be possible to override) and the fact that AnonAddy's sending messages bound for that address back to me when I see no reason for it to do so (although I'm not familiar with its architecture).
This does not occur if the response is not sent from the default recipient: