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Gmail Begins Signing Email with DomainKeys

Posted by timothy on from the early-adopter dept.

NW writes "According to a post at IETF's MAIL-SIG list, Google has begun to sign outgoing email from Gmail with Yahoo's DomainKeys signatures. This is the first large provider of email that is actually doing so (not even Yahoo has started that yet)."

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  1. Re:Continue the trend by user+no.+590291 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That's cool and all, but darn near everyone has to be using it before anyone can even think about dropping unsigned emails (I'm talking about businesses, not about mail servers in someone's basement, here.)

  2. So this by OverlordQ · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So this works like SPF?

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    1. Re:So this by Russ+Nelson · · Score: -1, Redundant

      Pretty lame post .... I'd be surprised if moderators failed to mark it Redundant. I'll take the risk of getting the same treatment by saying that DomainKeys survives forwarding.
      -russ

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  3. Re:It takes all those PhDs at Google by secolactico · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Someone mod parent up, please.

    Ok... DOH!

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  4. Re:What!? by bofkentucky · · Score: 0, Redundant

    No, you need to be a bastard and say, "You forged the From: address, you're not hitting my mail spool". Its real simple, follow the RFC's or I don't accept mail from you.

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  5. Re:A GLORIOUS VICTORY OF THE YAHOO ARMY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Mind that Google and Yahoo are "kin". Nobody's been subsumed, just the left hand shaking with the right.

  6. Re:Continue the trend by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    And if you had taken any time to study these proposals before spouting your mouth off on Slashdot, making yourself look like an idiot in the process, you would have already known that.

  7. HELLO? by tarunthegreat2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What about

    9. ????? 10. Profit!!! Wow, maybe I'm getting old. In Soviet Russia (jokes), Old memes are YOU!

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