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GMail is Breaking Email (www.igregious.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Open a Gmail account, send spam.
Buy a domain, setup SPF and DKIM, send spam.
Hack an SMTP server, send spam.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.