@DannyH Good to know that you got a reaction.
I did have a support call from Hubspot, I could hear the sadness in his voice when I raised this problem, it wasnt the first time I guess.
Re-option 3, sorry I misnumbered the option there are 2x option 3.
3) Option: Create Sales contacts automatically for new email addresses where the email extension matches an exisitng company.
I was going to suggest that the contact gets created if there is a contact with the same email extension in the sales contact list.
This was pretty dumb by me as you would already have 1000’s of @gmail.com extensions, hence the company email extension idea as this would be unique.
4) Quarantine all automatically created contacts .
A pain to operate but at least your qualified contacts are not being flooded with junk.
You need to be able to define a group of super users who adjudicate and release vital replies to marketing and kill unwanted contacts.
Regards
Tim