Hermes just mass emailed a bunch of accounts from 2020 with pairing requests.

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Summary

Hermes chatbot was misconfigured as an email integration and inadvertently treated every email sender as a stranger trying to DM the bot, replying to them with pairing codes instead of just reading the inbox.

Hermes email integration is a bidirectional chat channel, not an inbox reader. if you connect it expecting to solely read your emails, it could instead treat every email sender as a stranger trying to dm your bot and reply to them with a pairing code. I wanted Hermes to skim my inbox and surface job leads. I already had the python script ready and working fine. I figured hey I can have Hermes summarize this on Telegram easily. things it sent from my Gmail, to actual humans and automated senders: ``` Hi\~ I don't recognize you yet! Here's your pairing code: \_\_\_\_\_ Ask the bot owner to run: hermes pairing approve email \_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Too many pairing requests right now\~ Please try again later! Interrupting current task. I'll respond to your message shortly. ``` the third one was its response to me trying to stop it, which it then emailed to whoever it was mid-pairing with. beautiful.
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