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0 pointsjbuhbjlnjbn4y ago0 comments

There is an obvious solution, do not send emails to gmail addresses.

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... or to domains that use gmail.

Possible to find out using dig but not as simple as avoiding gmail addresses.

Only if the domain uses google's MX as the public facing MX. If it delivers to an intermediate MX for filtering or archiving or ??? and then redelivers to google, it's not visible.

Of course, if you don't set the public MX to google, blackberry phones won't use the right SMTP for outgoing mail, and then mail will fail DMARC, because you can't actually configure the SMTP server anyway. Hope they fixed that in BB10, before they stopped selling phones.

account424y ago

> If it delivers to an intermediate MX for filtering or archiving or ??? and then redelivers to google, it's not visible.

That is a) a very odd and theoretical setup b) probably would cause Google's MX to reject most messages for SPF failures

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ashtonkem4y ago

You can give out this advice, very few people will follow it. Given the choice between giving up some privacy and the convenient of sending an email to a friend or colleague using gmail, the vast majority of people will choose the latter. Meaningful improvements to privacy must come with negligable convenience tradeoffs if you want people to actually adopt them.

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