Reply to post: DMARC prevents spoofing

It's not you, it's Big G: Sneaky spammers slip strangers spoofed spam, swamp Gmail sent files

dominicr

DMARC prevents spoofing

If Gmail used DMARC 'p=reject' then this wouldn't happen or at least its impact would be minimal since any mailsever that respects DMARC would block these fake emails on arrival - including all the major services (even Gmail itself). Gmail's DMARC policy remains 'p=none' - so really they have only themselves to blame, and it will continue to happen. Yahoo by contrast use p=reject - so do facebook, paypal, linkedin, twitter, pinterest...

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