Miscellaneous: Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received...

By Anonymous - 08/11/2010 05:02 - United States

Today, I went through my spam folder. I found out that I'd received several emails telling me that I have been sending emails containing essays for a class of mine to the wrong address. The term ended yesterday. FML

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By creepingjennie - 23/01/2022 23:01

Today, I discovered my ex has been signing my email up for various newsletters. I knew I was getting a lot of spam, but didn't know why. It became apparent when one of these emails had his name in it. FML

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The ole answer/forward conundrum

By Master's_degree_in_failure - 17/10/2020 22:30

Today, I "answered" an email instead of "forwarding" it. As a result, there is a chance that my Master's thesis supervisor gets a message from me starting by the F-word, and complaining about my bad work and inability to understand a deadline. FML

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Triage

By Anonymous - 16/12/2020 05:02 - Germany - Emden

Today, I realised that Gmail has been sending lots of important messages directly into the spam folder, where I never saw them. All were from people who I had either contacted myself, or had regular contact with in the past. One address even had a filter on it, specifying, "Never send it to spam." FML

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Freshman blues

By Anonymous - 11/11/2020 09:04 - Rwanda - Kigali

Today, I found out there’s a university email platform I never knew about. I’m a freshman and I’ve been using my personal email to communicate with the lecturers. Now I’ve got a pile of assignments to do and most of them are overdue. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/09/2009 14:12 - United States

Today, I realized I had misspelled "Education" on all the resumes I've been submitting. FML

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Proofread your stuff

By Brittany - 01/03/2009 20:00 - United States

Today, I typed an essay on my friend's computer, so she forwarded it to me in a email and she made the subject "here bitch" as a joke. I then went to email the essay to my teacher. I forwarded it thinking nothing of it only to realize that I didn't change the subject name. FML

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By Anonymous - 14/12/2012 23:16 - United Kingdom - Bridgwater

Today, I sent an email to my boss saying I'd fixed a glitch in our mail servers. He called me later, angrily shouting that I'd done a piss-poor job of fixing it, because my email had spammed his inbox with several hundred duplicate messages. FML

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Spammed out

By goddamnit - 14/03/2009 02:57 - United States

Today, I got a letter saying I was no longer a student at my college and my current work is void since I had ignored and refused to pay my tuition bill. Over the past month I've been deleting these pesky emails saying 'FINAL WARNING regarding payment' thinking it was more spam. They weren't. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/01/2013 01:04 - Australia - Brisbane

Today, my boss put me on suspension for violating company policy by having non-work related mail in my inbox. They were spam emails. FML

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By OverWorked1 - 20/01/2011 03:59 - United States

Today, I was talking to a co-worker about birth control. Ten minutes later, I went to my sent e-mails to copy and reuse an old e-mail and realized I had sent "I tried calling you but your birth control is not working" to a student. It was supposed to say "voicemail". FML

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DocBastard 38

Monday 8 November 2010 13:16

I see the meeting going something like this: Professor: I'm afraid I'm going to have to give you an F. OP: No! I'll lose my scholarship! Isn't there SOMETHING I can do? Professor: Well, there is ONE thing. OP: Oh, professor! Your shirt is so tight... Baw wah oh waoh wah oh wah /bad **** music poorly transliterated

marinus_fml 19

Monday 8 November 2010 11:55

Shit, that sucks man! at least you should still be able to prove you had sent the email with the attachment! I'm sure if you show it to them, they might let you off the hook!

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tttiffany 0

Monday 8 November 2010 19:11

that completely blows. show your prof. or something, it's better to fail trying to solve this than not attempting to solve it at all!

MrRawwr84 0

Monday 8 November 2010 19:18

wooah you're soo pretty ;o model??

A_beautiful_mind 0

Monday 8 November 2010 20:54

Massachusetts huh? I'd be willing to bet money that the OP doesn't attend MIT.

TheIrishJaneDoe 8

Monday 8 November 2010 20:55

Wait... why was it filtered as spam? Wouldn't you have added what you thought to be the right address to your contacts, or set incoming replies from that address to be accepted? It seems like it should have been a known address, even if it wasn't the right person's.

RAUN 8

Thursday 17 November 2011 3:36

Mail with an attachment might get sent back by the server (e.g.: [email protected]), not the account to which it was addressed (e.g.: [email protected]).

Zebidee 8

Monday 8 November 2010 21:21

A very similar thing happened to me, where I had an assignment go missing before my uni changed to a better system. All I did was contact my course facilitator and CC'd the head of department, explained the story, provided the evidence, and they sorted it out. If you're doing a course where stuff is submitted by email and you're not in enough contact with them that they'd ask, chances are you're in something like a distance course, where you're too much of a cash cow for them to fail you without very good reason. As with all things in life - just go talk to the people. It won't always work, but it IS always worth a shot.