I know that Microsoft, Google, others have been using DMARC for over a year, but that doesn't explain your more recent drop-off in spam.
(I had to search, found this <http://www.pcworld.com/article/249028/google_microsoft_and_facebook_battle_ phishing_with_new_specification.html> ; I'm sure I had read about it well before January last year) Major Internet companies including Google, Microsoft, and Facebook have announced a new specification to streamline the way e-mail providers work out whether messages are part of phishing attacks using spoofed domain addresses. In testing for two years and called DMARC <http://www.dmarc.org/index.html> (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance), the initiative is really an attempt to impose a single set of policies on the sometimes arbitrary way that way companies separate the good e-mail from the bad. _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Burstin Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 8:24 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: [OT] Gmail and spam Hi folks, I've noticed that my gmail spam folder (spam for the last 30 days) has dropped from an average of around 500 emails down to about 60. Anyone else had a similar experience? Any ideas why the sudden drop? On a possibly related note, yesterday I sent myself an email from gmail to another account I have. That account is set up to forward its emails back to my gmail account. Previously doing this has meant that my email shows up both in my sent items and in my inbox. Yesterday the email didn't arrive (although it is in my sent items). I can see 2 possible reasons: 1. Gmail is smart enough to recognize that the email originated from my account so isn't putting it into my inbox (although this has not been the case previously) 2. The account I sent it to is now on some kind of spam list and gmail has blocked it (although it is not in my spam folder) I'm interested in hearing other people's thoughts as to what might be the cause. Happy Friday. Dave
