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    1 year ago

    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?

    • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago
      • Open a Gmail account, send spam.
      • Buy a domain, setup SPF and DKIM, send spam.
      • Hack an SMTP server, send spam.
      • The Doctor@beehaw.org
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        Spammers were the first to adopt SPF, DKIM, and DMARC for their operations when they were first introduced. Monitoring a couple of “online mass marketing” forums was where a lot of us learned how to set it up ourselves, because spammers’ howtos were better than the documentation for any of those measures.