On 2025-05-21 at 09:24, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > On Wed May 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM BST, john doe wrote: > >> Is there a way to find the correct e-mail address if you only have >> the first and last name and the domain ((jane doe domain.TLD)? > > In general, no.
The reason is that E-mail addresses do not have to be matched to people's names, either in any obvious way, or indeed in any way at all. Jane F. Doe's E-mail address under example.com could be any of: jane....@example.com jane...@example.com janef...@example.com do...@example.com doej...@xample.com dj1...@example.com j...@example.com dsqphb...@example.com or any of many, many others. My own E-mail address bears no relation or resemblance to my legal name, or the name I go by in daily conversation. If all you know are my name as-such and the domain I have the address under, you'd have basically no chance of guessing the E-mail address correctly. Even if you knew the handle I go by, and the domain, you'd still have to guess whether the address was wanderer@, or thewanderer@, or the_wanderer@, or something that *is* based on my real name instead of on my handle, or... The general case of "guess an E-mail address from a name/handle and a domain" is, essentially, an impossible proposition. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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