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Roughly 50% of my daily Spam comes from @gmail & @hotmail/@outlook accounts. What exactly are they doing about that ?
by gtech1 3y ago
Roughly 50% of my daily Spam comes from @gmail & @hotmail/@outlook accounts.
What exactly are they doing about that ?
- jesterson 3y agoThey may not - but you fail to properly set up DMARC.
- mjl- 3y agoat least gmail.com has a dmarc policy p=none, so a failing dmarc check is not a reason to reject email. i don't think it's that common for small-scale installs to enforce dmarc policies. there are other signals to use though. plenty of bigfreemail spam is actually sent from their network, they're an interesting target for spammers, and at least some of them put a lot of effort in preventing abuse.
- jjav 3y ago> What exactly are they doing about that ? Nothing at all, because they are too big to care. Aggressive decentralization is the only way to save the Internet. Host your own email, get everyone you know to host their own email.
- samirillian 3y agoFantasy solution, will never happen.
- jjav 3y agoYou might be surprised, if you're young enough, to hear that this is exactly how it worked for a very long time. At my first corporate job, and my second one as well, all email was sent and received directly from/to each persons individual workstation. There was no concept of centralized email server. (Let alone outsourcing it to some other company, that would have been completely unthinkable.)
- samirillian 3y agolots of things used to be a thing
- yobbo 3y agoYep. It seems to be from stolen accounts, maybe gathered from leaked account/password lists. The result is that outgoing hotmail/outlook smtp servers are added to blacklists until they start content filtering their own users.
- iamacyborg 3y agoIt’s not even stolen accounts. There is a huge amount of cold sales email (spam) sent specifically through Google Workspace accounts. Google do absolutely nothing about it.