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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 17:28:34 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Blocking non-business email domains such as Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail and co? What could possible go wrong?

   • vksxypants (vksxypants@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 17:34:01 JST vksxypants

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     @nixCraft in fairness, at my company, this would be a 0% false positive strategy. We just don't receive or have any need to receive external emails from non-business domains.

   • hansvschoot (hansvschoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 18:37:36 JST hansvschoot

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     @nixCraft just shut down the mailserver, 100% email spam blocked!

   • Wisdomenigma, Inc (wisdomenigma_inc@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 21:27:06 JST Wisdomenigma, Inc

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     @nixCraft

   • Brokar (brokar@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Sep-2024 21:42:29 JST Brokar

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     @nixCraft
     I know that many small businesses have hotmail, gmx, t-online, gmail accounts. because they're free of charge.
     The emails you need to be sensible about are HTML emails, there it's possible to visibly disguise the target http link.
     Every serious company has a link in it so that you can see the HTML in the browser. So rather than blocking, switch off emails with HTML content.
     With text-only emails you always see the actual link.

   • Surinder Singh Kalwan (surinder@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Sep-2024 22:12:53 JST Surinder Singh Kalwan

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     @nixCraft yahoo or gmail has huge email users, so even 1% of it will be huge and it is obvious that top 5 free webmail providers will be there in all good and bad scenarios. If it is for cisco org, it may be fine as they may be interacting with entities having company email ids. May not work with companies interacting with individuals.