Hmmm. The link goes to:
https://iforgot.apple.com/verify/email?key=3DXXXXXX02e5218544ec4c2cb6ab6d93=
786f5d5a106a6e6c43c82b0f77a5fd39153cc0e6LTOW&language=3DUS-EN
Verify email? The email was not sent to the email address that I've used at apple.com for ten years. By clicking the link did I just verify to someone that this is a legit email address?
Scott - the header is a mile long and I don't understand any of it. I looked at half a dozen other headers and none of them have an emoticon stuck in the middle. That seems odd.
Delivered-To:
me@gmail.com
Received: by 10.79.115.138 with SMTP id y10csp598291ivf;
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:19:08 -0800 (PST)
X-Received: by 10.98.44.73 with SMTP id s70mr31764080pfs.2.1455257948015;
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:19:08 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path:
Received: from mdn-txn-msbadger0302.apple.com (mdn-txn-msbadger0302.apple.com. [17.171.37.39])
by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id hr2si310217pac.7.2016.02.11.22.19.07
for
(version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128);
Thu, 11 Feb 2016 22:19:07 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of appleid@id.apple.com designates 17.171.37.39 as permitted sender) client-ip=17.171.37.39;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com;
spf=pass (google.com: domain of appleid@id.apple.com designates 17.171.37.39 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=appleid@id.apple.com;
dkim=pass header.i=@id.apple.com;
dmarc=pass (p=REJECT dis=NONE) header.from=id.apple.com
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; d=id.apple.com; s=id2048; c=relaxed/relaxed;
q=dns/txt; i=@id.apple.com; t=1455257946;
h=From:Subject
ate:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type;
bh=7DaViI4KRwD9gRO0l7AZaMJ91us=;
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B+bZoOlqybP6GkybRrzt3w==;