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Just create a filter to send everything that doesn’t match your dot pattern to the trash. I have a relatively common first name / last name gmail account and it gets out of control sometimes.

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My issue with doing that is that the other person will never get help. They’ll just say “oh my emails keep getting lost”, but if google would bounce them, then hopefully one of these services would notify the person that that isn’t their email. Instead of them happily continuing to send it all to me.

Very few services manage email delivery well enough to propagate email bounces back to their user account info.

The amount of consideration I'm willing to extend to a person who either doesn't know their own email address or is trying to scam me isn't that great.

Sometimes I'll text the person and complement them on their choice of purchases- yesterday it was a stunningly large Domino's pizza order.

Don't see a way to do that in the web UI. There's a "To" box in the first page for filter setup, but no obvious way to negate so as to specify "NOT To".

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