yearbook.email
Somebody wrote to you from this domain. Here is how to tell whether it was us.
yearbook.email is the return address on yearbook correspondence. It is operated by Stanley Studios. This page is not selling anything — it exists for the one reader who arrives here holding a message and wanting to know whether to trust it.
The short version: check with your school using a phone number or web address you already had, not one from the message. Nobody writing from here will ever ask you for a password, a code, or a payment. If a message does, it is not us, whatever the name at the top says.
Not a shop
No price, no plan, no basket, no account. There is nothing on this page to buy and nothing to sign up for.
No sign-in
This page never asks you to log in, and a genuine notice will not need you to. Sign-in prompts are the most-imitated thing in mail.
Plain answers
Where we cannot do something, this page says so instead of implying we can. There is a list of those further down.
What this domain is
A yearbook generates a surprising amount of correspondence. Deadlines move. An adviser is short two photographs of the orchestra. A name is spelled two ways in two places and somebody has to decide which one goes in the book. Families ask when the book arrives. All of that has to come from somewhere, and it comes from an address ending in yearbook.email.
That is the whole of what this domain is: a return address for the mail a yearbook produces. It is not a product you can subscribe to, and it is not a place you have an account.
It matters that it has a page at all, because a domain that sends mail and has nothing behind it is unverifiable. Somebody who wants to check gets a blank browser tab, which tells them nothing and, if anything, makes a genuine message look worse. So this page is the thing at the end of that check.
How to check a message, in order
These are ordered deliberately. The first one settles most cases on its own, and every one of them works without needing anything from us — no lookup, no tool, no account. That is the point: advice that depends on a company having built something is advice that stops working the moment it has not.
- Use a number or address you already hadContact the school the way you normally would — the number in your own contacts, the address on the school website you navigated to yourself, or the office in person. Do not use a phone number, link, or address that arrived in the message you are checking. This one step settles almost every case, and it works whoever the message was really from.
- Ask whether the school is running a yearbook this wayA yearbook adviser or the front office will know immediately whether the school uses this platform and whether it has written to families recently. If the answer is no, you have your answer and it cost one phone call.
- Look at what the message is asking you to doGenuine yearbook correspondence asks you to submit a photo, check a name spelling, confirm an order you placed, or read a deadline. It does not ask for a password, a bank detail, or a government identification number. See the list below.
- Treat urgency as a reason to slow downReal yearbook deadlines are announced weeks ahead and repeated. A message that says you have hours to act, or that something will be lost forever, is behaving unlike any yearbook deadline we have ever set. That is worth a pause and a phone call.
- Check the whole address, not the display nameThe name shown at the top of a message is chosen by whoever sent it and can say anything. Open the full address. Read it right to left: the part immediately before the first slash of a link, and the part after the final at-sign of an address, are the parts that are hard to fake. A lookalike domain will differ there.
If you get to the end of that list and are still unsure, treat the message as unverified and act as though it were not real. Nothing about a yearbook is so urgent that it cannot wait for a phone call in the morning.
What nobody writing from this address will ever ask you for
This is a list of commitments about our own conduct, which is the only sort of promise this page can honestly make. Read it as a test you can apply to any message: if it asks for something on this list, it did not come from us, no matter what name is at the top.
- Your password, for anything. Not for our platform, not for your email, not for the school portal. There is no situation in which yearbook correspondence needs a password from you.
- A code sent to your phone. A one-time code is how you prove you are you. Anyone asking you to read one out is asking you to hand over that proof.
- Card numbers, bank details, or a payment by transfer. Nothing about a yearbook is settled by wiring money to an address in an email. If a school is collecting money, it will tell you through its own channels how it does that.
- A social security or government identification number. A yearbook has no use for one. Neither does anybody legitimately writing to you about one.
- Gift cards, vouchers, or a payment on someone else’s behalf. This is the shape of a well-known scam that often borrows a school’s name and a staff member’s name. It has never been how any part of this works.
- Remote access to your computer or phone. There is no support scenario here that requires it, because there is nothing to install on your device in the first place.
Note the shape of that promise. It says nobody from here will ask. It does not say you will never receive a message that asks, because a domain can be imitated by people we have no control over, and telling you otherwise would be a false comfort that got somebody hurt.
What this mail actually is
Knowing the ordinary shape of something makes the unusual easy to spot. Yearbook correspondence is narrow, and this is nearly all of it.
| Kind | What it looks like | What it asks for |
|---|---|---|
| A deadline notice | A date, what closes on that date, and who at the school to ask about it. | Nothing. It is information. |
| A request for a photo or a caption | A named section of the book, and what the adviser is short of. | A file or a sentence, sent back the ordinary way. |
| A name-spelling check | A short list of names as they will be printed, with a way to say one is wrong. | A correction, or nothing at all if it is right. |
| A note about an order you already placed | A reference to something you did, not an invitation to start something new. | Confirmation at most. Never a card number typed into a message. |
| A reply from a person | An answer to something you asked, signed by someone at the school or here. | Whatever the conversation was already about. |
Nothing on that list needs a credential from you. That is not a coincidence — it is what makes the test in the previous section reliable.
Why this address is not for sale
Several addresses in this estate are branded mailboxes you could ask about. This is not one of them, and the difference is worth stating plainly rather than leaving as an unexplained gap in a catalog.
The domain already carries live mail. Offering it as an empty mailbox for somebody else to claim would be false on its face, and worse, a claimed mailbox here could shadow correspondence that people rely on. So the exclusion is not a business preference or a temporary state — it is written into the software as a rule that refuses to serve a claim page on this host at all.
That has a consequence this page is going to own rather than hide: our own product catalog has described this domain as an available mailbox. It is not, it was not, and the honest correction is the sentence you are reading. A catalog entry is not a product.
What we do not claim about mail records
A page like this is expected to tell you to go and inspect the sender’s published mail records. We are not going to, and the reason is the most useful thing on this page.
We have not confirmed what anti-spoofing records exist for this domain, and a fleet-wide effort to publish such records across our other mail domains never placed a single record live. Pointing you at something we have not confirmed is there would produce one of two bad outcomes: you look, find nothing, and discard a real message; or you find something, believe it proves more than it does, and act on a message you should have questioned.
So this page makes no claim in either direction, and the checks it does give you do not depend on the answer. When that changes, the honest version of this section will say what was published and when it was measured. Until then it says this.
If something looks wrong
They can warn other families in one message, which is the single most effective thing anyone can do, and they can do it faster than we can. If a message is imitating your school, your school is the one that needs to know.
Send it to [email protected]. Forward the message rather than describing it, if your mail program lets you — the useful part is the headers, which a description loses.
A person reads it. If it is imitating a school we work with, we tell that school. We are not going to promise you a response time, an investigation, or a takedown, because those are things we would be inventing to sound reassuring.
If you already replied and gave something away, do not wait on any of the above. Change the password you used, anywhere you used it, and if money or card details were involved, tell your bank first — they deal with this daily and they are the fastest route to undoing it.
For yearbook advisers
You are the person families will call, so the useful thing is for you to be able to answer in one sentence. That sentence is: yes, our yearbook mail comes from that domain, and no, nobody from it will ever ask you for a password or a payment.
Two practical suggestions, both free and neither requiring anything from us:
- Tell families the pattern before you need to. A line in a newsletter at the start of the year — what yearbook mail looks like and what it will never ask for — does more than any warning sent after something has gone wrong.
- Keep one known-good route open. Make sure families have a way to reach the office that did not arrive by email. That is what every check on this page ultimately falls back on.
If a family forwards you something and you are unsure, you are welcome to forward it on to us. The same honest limits apply: a person will read it, and we will not invent a response time.
For families
You do not need to become an expert in email to stay safe here. One habit covers nearly everything: when a message asks you to do something, reach the school a way the message did not choose for you.
That is it. Not a checklist to memorise, not software to install. It works because the entire method of the thing this page is warning you about is to control every route you might use to check — the link, the number, the reply address. Stepping outside all of them at once defeats it.
And if you get it wrong, you are in very good company, and the first hour matters more than the blame. The steps are in the section above.
What we cannot do
Listed because a page that only described its strengths would be the wrong page for this reader.
- We cannot stop somebody forging this domain. Nobody can, in the general case. Treat any service that claims otherwise with the same suspicion this page is teaching.
- We cannot see mail that was not sent by us. If somebody imitates the domain, that message never touches anything we run, so we have no record of it until a person forwards it.
- We cannot tell you a message is genuine from its text alone. Convincing text is the easy part for whoever wrote it. The check that works is the one that leaves the message entirely.
- We cannot guarantee a genuine message reaches you. Mail delivery is decided by receiving systems we do not control, and anyone promising inbox placement is selling something they cannot deliver.
- We do not offer a mailbox here. Covered above, and it is a rule in the software rather than a preference.
What a reply is used for
If you write to the reporting address on this page, what you send is read by a person and used to answer you and to warn the school if a school is being imitated. It is not added to a marketing list, and contact details you send stay inside our own systems rather than going to an outside marketing company.
This page itself sets nothing that follows you around, asks for no account, and has no third-party tracker on it. There is no form here at all — the only way to contact us from this page is an ordinary email address you can see, which is deliberate on a page about not trusting things that ask you to enter information.
Where students’ own data is concerned: it is consent-gated and it is not public. That is a property of the products that hold it, and it is described on those products’ own pages. This domain is a return address and holds none of it.
Questions
I got a message from this domain. Is it real?
Probably, and the way to be sure does not involve us: contact the school using a number or web address you already had, and ask. That check works whether the message was genuine or not, which is exactly why it is the one we lead with. We would rather you trusted your school’s own front office than trusted a page on the internet that says to trust it.
Can I buy a mailbox at this domain?
No. This address is not for sale and there is no plan, price, or sign-up on this page. The domain carries live mail already, and offering it as an empty mailbox would be false. If you are looking for a branded school or studio address, that is a different product on a different domain.
Someone is pretending to be you. Can you stop them?
We can look at what you send us and we can tell the school. We are not going to claim we can take a forged message down, because in the general case nobody can. Anyone who tells you they can reliably stop their domain being imitated is overstating it.
Do you publish records that prove a message came from you?
This page makes no claim about the mail records for this domain, in either direction. We are not going to send you looking for something we have not confirmed is there. Use the checks above instead, which do not depend on it.
Why does this page not just ask me to log in and check?
Because teaching people to follow a link and sign in is the exact habit that gets them caught. This page has no sign-in, asks for no account, and sets nothing that follows you. If a message ever tells you to sign in somewhere to see a yearbook notice, that is worth checking by phone first.
I replied and gave away something I should not have. What now?
Change the password you used, anywhere you used it, starting with your email. If it was a card or bank detail, tell your bank — they handle this every day. Then tell the school, so other families can be warned. None of that requires anything from us, and all of it is worth doing before you contact us.
Is my child’s photograph or record involved in this?
Not by anything on this page. This page is about mail. Where student photographs and records are handled, they are consent-gated and are not public, and that is described on the product surfaces that actually handle them — not here, because this domain is a return address, not a gallery.
Who actually operates this domain?
Stanley Studios. We are naming ourselves on purpose: a page whose job is to help you work out who is writing to you would be useless if it were coy about who it belongs to.
Related, if you came here for something else
Some people reach this page looking for the yearbook itself rather than a message about one.
- yearbook.software — the software a school uses to build the book.
- homeroom.software — the wider platform the yearbook is one part of.
- homeroom.support — help for people already using the platform.
- stanleystudios.llc — the company that operates this domain.
What is real and what is not asserted
Real today. The domain is owned and operated by Stanley Studios and carries live mail. The address cannot be claimed, and that exclusion is enforced in the software rather than by a DNS setting alone. A person reads what is sent to the reporting address.
Not asserted. Any anti-spoofing record status for this domain, in either direction. We have not confirmed it, so this page does not describe it, and none of its advice depends on it.
Never claimed. Inbox placement, the ability to detect or take down a forged message, a response time, or that any particular school currently sends from this address.
Not here at all. Student rosters, photographs, and face matching. This domain is a return address; it is not a gallery and holds none of that.
Nothing for sale. No price, no plan, no card, no account, on this page or behind it.