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Exactly. This is also what makes SPF and friends a bit of a pointless exercise. Even if they had global unanimous support end users don't really care about the
by xorcist 8y ago
Exactly. This is also what makes SPF and friends a bit of a pointless exercise. Even if they had global unanimous support end users don't really care about the envelope from anyway.
Stopping phishing is hard. End users mostly are fooled by a little padlock in their web browser, and that's a much simpler trust model. Eliminating email dressed up as web pages would probably do more to combat that than authenticated sender models ever will, but nobody really wants that.
- willj 8y agoI think the thing that is concerning to me is not so much that users don't care about the envelope from, so much as it is that other email providers' anti-spam measures may block my email if some spammer start spoofing me. Then, poof! I can't email any gmail accounts anymore.