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The Death of Decentralized Email (blog.lopp.net)

submitted 4 months ago by makeasnek@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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Interesting history and analysis of SMTP's history. How can we prevent fedi and other open protocols from suffering the same fates?

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[–] halm@leminal.space 10 points 4 months ago

Don’t email spammers just spoof the domain or send without a domain?

Very much so. Out of the spam that I do see in my inbox, the sender domains are usually spoofed, while the reply-to addresses are usually gmail.com, hotmail.com or outlook.com.