Oddbean new post about login | logout My personal email server has worked fine for like 10 years but gmail just did something recently and now all of my emails to gmail users goes to their spam. I think they require dkim now (signed emails), so much for deniability? Email decentralization is a joke.
cool or whatever https://i.nostr.build/VwvVq.gif
I think they’ve technically required DKIM and SPF for a long time, but they have been rolling “improvements” to spam filtering lately, so it’s probably stricter than it used to be.
I’ve never had dkim and I’ve never had an issue until recently, so yeah it looks like I was caught in some spam war crossfire
Hashcash fixes this? Alas, that ship has long sailed. nostr:nprofile1qqs0w2xeumnsfq6cuuynpaw2vjcfwacdnzwvmp59flnp3mdfez3czpspz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj76l8lp0 has a good blog on this.
I used to add these to my email but gmail doesn’t look at them
Useful tool: https://easydmarc.com/
Surprised no one has posted a “always has been” meme about this.
If you send fewer than 5,000 emails per day, it seems you should use SPF or DKIM. (If there are more than 5,000 items, you will need to use to both.) Other requirements include compliance with RFC5322 / TLS connection / gmail postmaster tools spam rate of 0.3% or less. It's confusing.😂
That’s ironic of them, because I get unsolicited spam email from random gmail users every. single. day. 😂
Even with DKIM, SPF and DMARC my emails still went to spam for gmail and microsoft accounts. I got so frustated that I gave up on email self hosting.
Back to “internet open relay problem” soon #nostr is going to face the same open relay problem. You cannot relay for free forever without a good grant orrrrr a micropayment. Cashu gift card is a good way to save [REQ, …nostrStuff, cashuGiftCard]
Could nostr protocol replace email protocol?
probably wouldn’t replace it, but you can build email like protocols on nostr yes
Yeah. That’s what I meant. Email will go away when the internet does. Interesting thought to make a parallel system for formal messaging.
Google and Apple still accept your messages if you have DKIM, DMARC, SPF and other things configured. Good luck with Microsoft.
Email is very much not deniable in practice. Almost all email is sent via third parties who create records that any court will accept as true. DKIM doesn't significantly change that. Remember that I sued Lovecruft for defamation, and she didn't even try to deny sending incriminating messages on _Pond_, a extremely secure crypto-nerd anonymous messaging platformed designed for deniability. Courts almost always accept electronic records as true by default.
Speaking of, said Pond messages: https://archive.org/download/todd-vs-lovecruft/pond-msgs/ Lovecruft admitted they were all real during the lawsuit. Note the dates: they're all written _after_ Lovecruft claimed I assaulted them...
This is going to be my default email address to use from now on. https://m.primal.net/IwyG.png
These big-tech will not cease to attempt to make email centralized, or keep decentralized but only among themselves. Excuse after excuse, they are creating barriers against small players and data sovereign oriented users using their own user base as spearhead.
