How would you safely discover corporate email patterns and related attack surface?

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Collect naming patterns from public PDFs and social profiles. Check MX and SPF or DMARC TXT for mail providers. Do not brute force accounts. Use breach corpuses carefully and disclose only minimal evidence. Purpose is to inform risk, not to access mail.

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dig TXT example.com | grep spf
Pattern: first.last@example.com from public docs

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How would you safely discover corporate email patterns and related attack surface?

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