www.tcd.ie email team

Boston · 21-11-2008 11:56am #1

Just received this email. For whatever reason it didn't get filtered. DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL.

Dear www.tcd.ie Email Account Owner,

We are currently performing maintenance for our Digital mail Account
holders due to the rate of identity informations problems being
encountered by some of our mail account holders.

We discovered that some of our mail account owners have been havng
problems logining into there respective email account. Hence, due to all
these, we are upgrading our Digital mail for better online services.

In order to ensure you do not experience service interruption, Please you
must reply to this email and enter your www.tcd.ie email address here
(............)and password here (.............) Note that we request your
password enable us know you are the real owner of this account; you shall
be sent a new confirmation/alphanumerical password so that it will only be
valid during this period and can be changed after this process for
security reasons.

Thank you for using www.tcd.ie
www.tcd.ie email team

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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:48:36 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Email Service Upgrade
From: "www.tcd.ie" <no.reply@tcd.ie>
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Dear www.tcd.ie Email Account Owner,

We are currently performing maintenance for our Digital mail Account
holders due to the rate of identity informations problems being
encountered by some of our mail account holders.

We discovered that some of our mail account owners have been havng
problems logining into there respective email account. Hence, due to all
these, we are upgrading our Digital mail for better online services.

In order to ensure you do not experience service interruption, Please you
must reply to this email and enter your www.tcd.ie email address here
(............)and password here (.............) Note that we request your
password enable us know you are the real owner of this account; you shall
be sent a new confirmation/alphanumerical password so that it will only b=
e
valid during this period and can be changed after this process for
security reasons.

Thank you for using www.tcd.ie
www.tcd.ie email team

Mark200 · 21-11-2008 12:39pm

I didn't get one

Boston · 21-11-2008 12:51pm

From close inspection of the trace data I've figured out why I received it. I have one tcd account forwarding to another while bi passing the spam filter on the first. Thus the last hop is an authenticated server and not getting filtered. Bit of a flaw in the system tbh.

Brian · 22-11-2008 12:34am

You only have one L in your last name?

Jonathan · 22-11-2008 12:59am

TCD student email addresses are in a standard format.

xyyyyyyy@tcd.ie
or
yyyyyyyx@tcd.ie

Where:
x is first letter of first name
y is first 7 letters of surname.

PurpleFistMixer · 22-11-2008 1:04am

They really don't seem that standardised... I have 2 letters of my first name at the end, my lab partner just has her second name in entirety, another guy has 2 letters of his first name at the start... I get that if you have a common second name and first name you'll get numbers etc., but the ordering system doesn't seem to make sense.

Brian · 22-11-2008 2:36am

first letter of first name, first letter of middle name, full surname. They must've known I was cool.

Jonathan · 22-11-2008 8:49am

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

They really don't seem that standardised... I have 2 letters of my first name at the end, my lab partner just has her second name in entirety, another guy has 2 letters of his first name at the start... I get that if you have a common second name and first name you'll get numbers etc., but the ordering system doesn't seem to make sense.

Yea i know there are more cases, but i wasn't arsed to type them all on a mobile

Your lab partner, is her surname 8 letters long with her initial of her first name the same as the 8th letter of her surname?

PurpleFistMixer · 22-11-2008 10:35am

It's 9 letters long, but yes, the last letter of her surname is indeed the first letter of her first name. It's a pretty handy email address to have. Mine is just a jumble of letters with very few vowels. ;_;

Jonathan · 22-11-2008 10:41am

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

It's 9 letters long, but yes, the last letter of her surname is indeed the first letter of her first name. It's a pretty handy email address to have. Mine is just a jumble of letters with very few vowels. ;_;

So then it does follow the same format I mentioned above. It just so happens that it is her surname.

Peleus · 23-11-2008 7:42pm

so if we're sent that email does it just automatically get deleted and not stored in our spam folder? cos i never got anything like that.

Boston · 23-11-2008 7:44pm

Its entirely possible 1) one reported it to ISS, 2) someone in ISS read this post. Meaning if never got through the system to begin with.

www.tcd.ie email team

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