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GMail is Breaking Email(www.igregious.com)

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Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

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dorkian-gray@kbin.social
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How does one send a spam email that passes SPF and DKIM if one doesn’t have access to the DKIM private key, or the DNS server to edit the SPF or DKIM records?

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Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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  • Open a Gmail account, send spam.
  • Buy a domain, setup SPF and DKIM, send spam.
  • Hack an SMTP server, send spam.
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Chobbes@beehaw.org
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You can’t… But you can register a domain and set up your own DKIM key and DNS records and then use it to send spam (until you get blacklisted, anyway). There’s a cost to doing that, though, so it’s less appealing.

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