24 Jan
2024
24 Jan
'24
9:18 a.m.
On 2024-01-24 08:34+0000, Gavin Westwood via BitFolk Users wrote:
I only found out a few days ago that Gmail and Yahoo
(and possibly others)
will require senders to have SPF, DKIM and DMARC records (as well as certain
other criteria) from February 2024:
https://postmarkapp.com/blog/2024-gmail-yahoo-email-requirements
I'm currently setting this up for a couple of my domains (it's already
working on a test sub-domain) to make sure I do it right, but thought that I
should drop a mail here for anyone else who isn't already aware.
Some useful links:
https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126
Thanks for the heads up.
Since Spring? Google has 5xx'd mail that doesn't have SPF or DKIM, only
one was needed - this sounds like both and a DMARC record will be
required now, but then it says "might":
"To improve email delivery, we recommend that you always set up SPF,
DKIM, and DMARC for your domains. Make sure you're meeting the minimum
authentication requirements described in Sender Guidelines. Messages
that aren't authenticated with these methods might be marked as spam
or rejected with a 5.7.26 error."
I hope SPF alone is enough.
What's annoying for me is that often the spam originates within gmail,
at least a large bulk that I see does since it is hard work to block
gmail without blocking legitimate senders, it makes a lot of sense for
spammers to get within that traffic, the ROI for account creation
hurdles is worth it. Something like SpamAssassin is needed, but that
puts the burden and energy costs on the receiver.
Another ballache.
Ed