From: riel@surriel.com (Rik van Riel)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Gmail complaining about authenticity of emails sent/received via kernelnewbies
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 10:37:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E0B38BD.1090201@surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimgkfm5-LcS5EbKzxAjmsDX_=kF2g@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/29/2011 10:28 AM, Prashant Shah wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Rik van Riel<riel@surriel.com> wrote:
>>
>> Did Gmail make changes perhaps?
>>
>
> just a wild guess. maybe something related to SPF
>
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=185812
>
> I know that the message was really sent by the sender. What can I do?
> Many small senders don't follow good sending practices and do not
> provide authentication information. This can lead to incoming emails
> being misclassified as spam, and it can also attract spammers who use
> the sender's name to send out spam.
>
> We recommend contacting the sender of the email and encouraging them
> to authenticate their messages by publishing a SPF record.
>
> SPF records should also be published in DNS as type SPF records.
You've got to be kidding me.
SPF is fundamentally flawed in so many ways, noone should
be recommending it in this day and age.
--
All rights reversed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-29 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-29 9:48 Gmail complaining about authenticity of emails sent/received via kernelnewbies Mandeep Sandhu
2011-06-29 9:56 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-29 11:00 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-06-29 11:04 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-06-29 11:07 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-29 12:45 ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-29 14:28 ` Prashant Shah
2011-06-29 14:37 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2011-06-29 17:19 ` Mulyadi Santosa
2011-06-29 18:42 ` Rik van Riel
2011-06-29 21:19 ` julie Sullivan
2011-06-29 21:25 ` julie Sullivan
2011-06-30 5:07 ` Mandeep Sandhu
2011-06-29 10:00 ` Felix Varghese
2011-06-29 10:59 ` Mandeep Sandhu
[not found] ` <BANLkTin=ZJk_U4JZWrOTUrpxM6HxsbMseQ@mail.gmail.com>
2011-06-29 11:50 ` Mandeep Sandhu
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