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I dont know of this is the correct place to ask, but unsure of all of this. So my boyfriend left his email open on our computer, when I went to close out to get into the program I was going to use I noticed he recieved an email from POF stating it's a mutual match and that he expressed interest in a user and the feeling is mutual. I was blindsided by the fact he is looking for someone while still in a relationship with me? So I went through all the other emails from POF and they were just general we found a match type emails... can anyone tell me if mutual match emails are spam just like the others or does he have to be active on POF to receive a mutual match email?