Technology

59148 readers

2773 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

553

ProtonMail and SimpleLogin emails will be blocked from registering on websites (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

201 comments fedilink hide all child comments

This makes me 😭

UPDATE: Thanks @[email protected] for this update: The issue has now been commented on and was closed by the maintainer, where they explained why those blocks would be nonsense. But it appears the OP wants to still talk with maintainer privately about it.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's actually really easy to get past the custom domain issue.

If the domain is send-and-receive, it will need a SPF record to avoid getting blackholed by most mail providers. A TXT lookup for the SPF record would tie the custom domain back to the real provider.

Or even easier, you could look up the MX records to see what domain they point to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I don't use Simplelogin so I don't know how their service works. The domains used for aliases don't need to originate email so there's no need for an SPF record. The A record for the hostname used for the MX record(s) could technically point at multiple IPs that could be changed often.

I own a significant number of domains and manage my own servers. There's quite literally no way for anyone to prevent me from using an email alias.

My point was that trying to block email aliases is a fool's errand. It's a slight hindrance to only the least technical users. The entire 7c/fakefilter project is an exercise in futility.