Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone... unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t...

Email is an open system, right? Anyone can send a message to anyone… unless they are on Gmail! School Interviews uses two email servers t…

  • dorkian-gray
    2•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 ClarkeEnglish
      4•1 year ago
      • Open a Gmail account, send spam.
      • Buy a domain, setup SPF and DKIM, send spam.
      • Hack an SMTP server, send spam.
    • Beej Jorgensen
      2•1 year ago

      I always just assumed spammers could make a DKIM private key and access a DNS server as easily as any of the rest of us.

    • @Chobbes@beehaw.org
      1•1 year ago

      You can’t… But you can register a domain and set up your own DKIM key and DNS records and then use it to send spam (until you get blacklisted, anyway). There’s a cost to doing that, though, so it’s less appealing.