Alcides Fonseca

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Google Workspace and Email Authentication

My employer added a new spam filtering system (Anubis), which blocks my own personal email. Since I have an old free account in Google Workspaces, I had to figure out what was going on. Apparently, I was not signing the emails with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.

I followed this very simple and direct guide on how to setup it up. And I tested my new configurations using DMARCly.

Now the problem is that I have my Gmail (for Google Workspaces) set up to send emails via my employer’s SMTP account. Yes, I like to have all my email accounts merged in one inbox. I tried to split it last year, but failed miserably as I have plenty of work stuff in my personal email, and I like a single search box for all my emails.

I’ll update this post when I am successful at signing SMTP outgoing emails as well.