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nicanorflavier / spf-dkim-dmarc-simplified

Email security is a key part of internet communication. But what are SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, and how do they work? This guide will explain it all in simple terms to make these concepts clearer.
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Email Service Provider #1

Open oz opened 2 weeks ago

oz commented 2 weeks ago

Hi there!

Thanks for starting a high-level guide about these topics. They can be difficult to explain to newcomers. 👍🏻

I noticed you put Gmail, Yahoo!, and Outlook under the category "Email Service Provider". In the email industry, this term refers to another kind of companies like Mailchimp, Sendgrid, Klavio, etc. that send marketing email in bulk. That's also on Wikipedia.

Gmail, Yahoo!, or Outlook, are sometimes referred to as "Inbox providers".

HTH.

nicanorflavier commented 2 weeks ago

Hello there, thanks for pointing that out. Yes you are right there I put Gmail, Yahoo and Outlook under that category Email Service Providers under the section Real World Examples of SPF, DKIM, and DMARC Are Used. Gmail and Yahoo Mail are used by regular people for sending and receiving emails like us but in terms of the email industry we should use your examples Mailchimp, SendGrid, etc.

Would you want to change the title instead or change that section instead? Would you want me to change or you want to change it?

If you want to change it moving forward raise a PR and let me see your changes then I can merge it to main branch and you get the contributor credit for it :)