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Google now blocks spoofed emails for better phishing protection (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 7 months ago by higgsboson@dubvee.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Google has started automatically blocking emails sent by bulk senders who don't meet stricter spam thresholds and authenticate their messages as required by new guidelines to strengthen defenses against spam and phishing attacks.

As announced in October, the company now requires those who want to dispatch over 5,000 messages daily to Gmail accounts to set up SPF/DKIM and DMARC email authentication for their domains.

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[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Is it though? Is your self hosted mail server sending 5,000+ emails to various Gmail inboxes daily? If not, this doesn’t seem like it would affect you. And even if it did, all they appear to be asking is that you enable DKIM and DMARC for your mail server, which is something both trivial to do and you should be doing anyway.

I’m not going to claim that a company like Google wouldn’t love to make life harder for the consumer, but I don’t see how anything related to this change would do that.