"Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.mous@example.invalid> wrote in
news:jck05g$g0b$1@dont-email.me:

> Dustin wrote:
>
>> ...
>> Unfortunately, Google has been building a contact list for the webmail
>> by harvesting email address(s) being passed in transit from the
>> smtp/pop3 transactions. In other words, they're harvesting and storing
>> it in your webmail account for your convenience.
>
> That must only be happening to you. :-/ I just checked my two POP3
> gmail accounts, and there are no harvested/stored email addresses at the
> webmail interface.
>

Hi BTS.

I knew I wasn't imagining things, so I googled.

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/a...en&answer=8933

Gmail automatically adds addresses to your Contacts list each time you use
the Reply, Reply to all, or Forward functions to send mail to addresses
that don't already exist in your Contacts list. Each time you mark a
message as 'Not Spam,' your Contacts list is also automatically updated so
that future messages from that sender are received in your inbox. If these
addresses don't appear immediately, try waiting a few minutes or signing
out of your account and signing back in.

While they don't specify here whether or not smtp is affected, I do believe
it is as some of the email addresses could have only been acquired for
google via my email client; I simply don't do webmail. Don't like it, can't
trust your emails will always be there, rather keep them stored locally.

Hopefully the damn thing will honor my request to let me create my own
contact list.


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