A bit off-topic: problems with sending to a Gmail user

[Ken Moffat]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 09:10:01AM +1100, raf wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 03:12:41PM +0100, Stefan Hagen
> <sh+mutt at ptrace.org> wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > >     550-5.7.26 This message does not have authentication
> > > >     information or fails to 550-5.7.26 pass authentication
> > > >     checks. To best protect our users from spam, the
> > > >     550-5.7.26 message has been blocked. Please visit
> > 
> > Authenticated in this context means, you don't have SPF / DKIM /
> > DMARC set up.
> 
> That's sad. I'm pretty sure that the absence of SPF/DKIM/DMARC was
> never supposed to be interpreted as a failure of any of them.
> Perhaps the sending domain does have SPF but it's not setup
> correctly. It doesn't seem to (unixarea.de).
> 
What is *really* sad is that most of the spam which gets through
direct to this account of mine is things apparently from gmail
addresses, pointing to ntlworld/somewhereelse.com addresses inviting
me to login, and with DKIM apparently passing (the last couple I
looked at were relaxed/relaxed).

ĸen
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