What is a polite way to address someone in an email, whose gender you don't know?
As someone who is often accidentally addressed as Mr. Narayan, here is what I expect from someone who doesn't know my genderDo a search on the name and see what gender seems to show up.If the gender is still ambiguous, just address the emails with a "Dear FirstName LastName", and use the full name to refer to someone in the body of the letter.Update: For a more casual tone, I second Benjamin Golub's suggestion to just start with a Hello or the body of the email. I've frequently used the former approach myself, though not specific to when I didn't know the gender.
If you reply to Craigslist response does your email address show up?
Your email shows up. You only get to be anonymous the first contact to you. Once you reply to that you are using your own email program and Craigslist is no longer involved. Get a disposable email address and forward that to your main email. Then reply to your CL ads only with that disposable address if you want to remain anonymous. Have fun!
Standard reply to emails sent to wrong person?
sir/madam, i believe the following email was sent to me in error. please make a note of it. if it was not sent in error, please clarify your message as the content appears to have no relevance to me. regards, your name
When I reply to a spoofed email, who receives that reply? The owner of the real email, or the spoofed email?
There are possibly 3 sender addresses associated with an email, From:, Reply-To: and Return-Path. All of them can be spoofed.If I reply with my regular email client, if Reply-To: is present, it offers me a choice, with that being the default. Else it uses From:.Return-Path I won’t see unless I expand the full email headers. That would have been used if the email could not be delivered - if my mailserver antivirus had rejected it up front and refused to accept it, or the sender had my address wrong and there was no such user at my domain.Normally, for personal email, Return-Path and From: are identical and set to the real address of the sender. For some legitimate mailing lists and newsletters, they are different.There is no way to tell the “owner of the real email” for a spoofed email. All you can do is look at mail headers and try to decide where to stop trusting them. You can trust your mail provider to provide correct information, because if you could not you’d never get any mail, and you can probably trust a big-name provider like Comcast. If they say it came from one of their users at a certain IP address, it probably did, but if you see more headers from domains you’ve never heard of, you can’t tell whether they are real, or spoofed and added later in the chain.In short, the owner of the spoofed email gets your reply, and is probably justly annoyed if you and 500 other people complain about something they have no knowledge of.If their address is used for a Return-Path, they also get hundreds of “undeliverable email” messages.If you are with a big provider such as Hotmail, clicking “this is spam” may take care of it for you - their process is sufficiently intelligent to unsubscribe you from mailing lists, and not to unjustly accuse those whose mail has been spoofed.
How do you reach back out when someone isn’t responding to your calls or emails?
Depending on your relationship with them, here’s how I think you should proceed:Business relationship:Contact their supervisor or the company (front desk/secretary). It’s possible that they no longer work at the company and your contact has fallen through the cracks. If not, their supervisor will probably be happy to know.Personal relationship, friendship (NON ROMANTIC): Send another e-mail/message, asking if they are OK and if there is any special reason why they aren’t responding, say you’re available to talk and leave your contact information. Possibly through a mutual friend.Personal relationship, romantic:Take the hint. If they are not responding to your messages, there is a reason for it. Don’t try and contact them, especially through friends.
How can I keep responses to my Craigslist ad from going to my spam folder?
I tested by responding to my own Craigslist ad, and the email still goes to my spam folder(even though its from my yahoo address). I have several filters, but none of them should be diverting these responses to my spam folder.