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Seems like a perfect opportunity to gin up some alumni donations Become a dues paying member of the alumni society? Get a real mailbox at school.edu to keep your address
Hello fellow SFU alumnus! This news has utterly disappointed me as well. I'm motivated enough about it to raise a stink. Feel free to DM me if you're down for an uphill battle. I actually worked in IT Services a during my time at SFU and all I can say is that,the upper management were more career executives than people motivated by actually helping. As such, it came as no surprise that they took the easy way out.
You can find my non-SFU (!) contact info in my profile.
DMARC happened 9 years ago, so I don't see why that would be related. I attended two universities in the United States, and they are both still happily forwarding emails to me. They have both been using Google Workspace for the last decade or so. So, for what it's worth, it seems like it's just your school that is doing this. Perhaps their IT department just has particularly dumb leadership that is trying to cover th…
Gmail now requires mail forwarders to cryptographically attest to the original DMARC alignment of forwarded mail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en Your former university may be using mail software that doesn't support ARC ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8617 ) or they've decided setting it up isn't worth it.
Hello fellow SFU alumnus! This news has utterly disappointed me as well. I'm motivated enough about it to raise a stink. Feel free to DM me if you're down for an uphill battle. I actually worked in IT Services a during my time at SFU and all I can say is that,the upper management were more career executives than people motivated by actually helping. As such, it came as no surprise that they took the easy way out.
It's really frustrating. As I said, I've used the same address for 20+ years now and it seemed like good brand awareness for the university to maintain this service for graduates/professionals so I never thought I suddenly have to move away from it. You can find my non-SFU (!) contact info in my profile.
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It's really frustrating. As I said, I've used the same address for 20+ years now and it seemed like good brand awareness for the university to maintain this service for graduates/professionals so I never thought I suddenly have to move away from it. You can find my non-SFU (!) contact info in my profile.
I think you might need to update your "About" section. That's the only part that's visible to non-admins.
i think this has to do with DMARC. i received messages from mailgun and spotify about this stuff. what enrages me as a small business owner is that this is another project i need to do. add DMARC to our domains. and next year it’s something new. companies like google can push their bullshit pipe dreams onto the world and get away with it.
Sorry, but this isn't brand new stuff. As a small business owner, you should have had DMARC, SPF, and DKIM set up already to ensure your mail gets delivered properly.
Seems like a perfect opportunity to gin up some alumni donations Become a dues paying member of the alumni society? Get a real mailbox at school.edu to keep your address
In fairness to them, there isn't a way to keep your forwarding address even if you pay, or at least nothing advertised.
But at least by offering mailboxes to alumni those alumni would not lose access to that email address completely, which could be pretty bad if you've been relying on it for decades
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In fairness to them, there isn't a way to keep your forwarding address even if you pay, or at least nothing advertised.
Yes, I get that they are going to have to remove all forwarding--even for people who have mailboxes--due to the DMARC requirements But at least by offering mailboxes to alumni those alumni would not lose access to that email address completely, which could be pretty bad if you've been relying on it for decades
Gmail now requires mail forwarders to cryptographically attest to the original DMARC alignment of forwarded mail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en Your former university may be using mail software that doesn't support ARC ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8617 ) or they've decided setting it up isn't worth it.
Thank you for putting me onto ARC. It seems that it was only finalized in 2019? Perhaps that might be why they might not be as informed of it. If one was to go about guiding the university on this, is there a place for me to start looking into this? From my current understanding, ARC signing requires an intermediary server? Is there a list of open source software that enables this?
The instructions for setting it up in Exim (default MTA on Debian systems) can be found here: https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/doc/doc-txt/experim...
(AFAICT, there is absolutely no mention of ARC in the main Exim documentation: https://exim.org/docs.html)