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

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.