I thought all hosting providers did this about 10 years ago? It has certainly been the case with fasthosts for as long as I can remember.
Couple that with a proper spf and dmarc entry and it pretty much eliminates from: spoofing. Sent from my iPhone On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 08:08, Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I received a message from my hosting provider, IONOS which appears to > state that they are banning the use of Identities. > > Having drilled down through the various layers of their message, I > reached the following link, which pertains to users of Thunderbird: > > > https://www.ionos.co.uk/help/email/absenderadressen-aendern/checking-and-changing-your-sender-address-in-mozilla-thunderbird/ > > In there, it talks about deleting all identities except the default one > (the actual mailbox address). > > Can anyone confirm that they are saying that Identities or Aliases may > no longer be used? If so, far from being an improvement in security, it > opens up the users to spammers and scammers from any business or website > that obtains the mailbox address. For the most part, I have studiously > avoided giving *anyone *this address for the past 30 odd years > specifically to avoid problems with spam. > > Have I missed something? > > -- > Terry Coles > > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-12-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
