2 ms·
I actually tried something similar to this on a small social networking service about 5 years ago. There was a requirement for people to interact with their gro
by brightball 4y ago
I actually tried something similar to this on a small social networking service about 5 years ago. There was a requirement for people to interact with their groups via email by replying to other emails or by sending a message to an email address for the group.
For both of these, I made the case that we should require the incoming emails to pass either a domain aligned SPF or domain aligned DKIM check (essentially what DMARC would do).
Since most people are going to be using a 3rd party email service, this just works by default. If they aren't, we shouldn't have any issue with forcing this requirement as it meets absolute basic email standards.
The higher ups let me do it and we ended up creating an instructional email that would bounce back to failed messages with the reason why, an explanation that we couldn't risk someone being impersonated on the platform and a suggestion that they use the app or website to interact until the issue could be resolved.
In the short time that I was there after that feature launched, we never ran into a problem.