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> Most of the spam I get in gmail apparently comes from other gmail accounts. Are they actually from Gmail accounts, or are they simply spoofing the sender? My
by chimeracoder 3y ago
> Most of the spam I get in gmail apparently comes from other gmail accounts.
Are they actually from Gmail accounts, or are they simply spoofing the sender? My bet is on the latter, because Google has heavy restrictions on Gmail that make it impractical to use for sending bulk spam.
> I am not sure what a big improvement this will be for the average user.
It's not going to be particularly noticeable for the average user, except for the second part (single-click unsubscribe, as opposed to a multi-step flow, is slightly stricter than what's required by CAN-SPAM). It will probably make Google's work easier, though, by having a publicly-known policy of rejecting emails without DKIM, as opposed the the status quo of having that be merely an open secret.
- andersa 3y agoSpoofing the sender to show up as gmail.com on gmail.com is not possible.
- ericpauley 3y agoGmail also has DMARC quarantine enabled. What’s more likely, that someone broke DMARC or that they stole someone’s password? My bet is on the latter.
- maybeben 3y agoThe vast majority of spam we get that isn't trivially rejected (DMARC, malformed HELO, etc) is from real, actual gmail. But they sure do care about _incoming_ spam.