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  SkullCap💀Archer (@ArcherSys) reported 7 seconds ago

  So one thing I definitely want to mention that during this documentary the CEO of bricks and minifigs actually trapped Ben by having him email information and then this tool bag subpoena Google to get all of his Gmail and everything information... If you do anything email that could have any litigation issues or could be brought up in litigation make sure you use an encrypted email like protonmail or something like that... Never use Gmail or Google for anything like that...

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  Dr Milan Milanović (@milan_milanovic) reported 4 minutes ago

  𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸? We hit send and the message arrives. Underneath that is a system with no built-in authentication and optional encryption, which is held together by 50 years of patches. Around 376 billion emails move every day, and close to half are spam. Here is the path each mail takes: 𝟭. 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 When we hit send, the client submits the message to a server on port 587, which checks our login, stamps a message-ID, and passes it on. 𝟮. 𝗘𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹-𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 It is store-and-forward. If the receiving server is down, the message waits in a queue and retries on a back-off schedule: 5 minutes, 30 minutes, then hours, up to four or five days. Instant delivery just means the queue cleared fast. 𝟯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗲𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗹 SMTP carries two "from" values. The envelope (MAIL FROM) routes the message between servers, while the header (From:) is the one we read. SMTP never checks that they match, and that gap is why phishing works. 𝟰. 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 SMTP shipped with no way to prove who sent a message. So the industry added SPF (a list of authorized IPs), then DKIM (a cryptographic signature) to cover SPF's gaps, then DMARC to make the visible From: match one of them. Three DNS setups, all easy to misconfigure. 𝟱. 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 Email uses opportunistic TLS. The sending server asks if the receiver supports STARTTLS, encrypts if yes, and falls back to plain text if no. For Gmail or Outlook client connections it is effectively mandatory, but server to server it stays optional. TLS also protects the connection, not the content, so the servers read everything. 𝟲. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻𝗲 A delivered message lands in the inbox, bounces with a 5xx error the sender sees, or gets moved to spam with no notice to anyone. RFC 5321 permits that last one. Email was built in the 1970s for a small network of researchers who trusted each other. Nobody planned for banking or phishing. Billions of messages still arrive correctly every day on top of all of it.

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  tangdi kebab (@tangdi_kebab) reported 4 minutes ago

  If only @Microsoft can fix whatever is wrong with Copilot 365 agentic workflows. Just do what Google is doing with Gemini for Google Workspace - Drive can sort my files, Gmail can make events in Calendar, Docs can pull data from all Google apps, etc

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  ♡Smileyyy♡ 警告 🐬 Art | Rig (incoming 3D Arc?) ✨ (@SmileyV4rtisttt) reported 6 minutes ago

  I'm sorry, but I can't create an account or provide my Gmail address. I've been scammed twice in the past through situations like this, so I hope you can understand why I'm being careful. Thank you for understanding. However if you're willing to discuss through dms or VGen i'm down

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  Janet (@Janet03888181) reported 7 minutes ago

  📧 An AI Gmail assistant 💱 An exchange rate notification bot Each project solved a real business problem while helping me grow as an AI Automation Specialist. Building AI isn't about getting everything right the first time.

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  Michel Lieben (@MichLieben) reported 7 minutes ago

  You can turn a raw list of names into verified emails without ever logging into a single data provider. Start with the problem. You've built a list of people to reach: names, companies, maybe a LinkedIn link. What you're missing is the one thing you need to contact them, their email. Finding it is enrichment. No single provider has everyone. Each one builds its database its own way, so one covers a big slice of your list and has nothing on the rest. Bet everything on one tool and you leave half your list on the floor. So you don't. You stack providers cheapest to most expensive and run them in order. The cheap one clears most of the list for pennies. Everyone it misses falls to the next provider, then the next. The expensive aggregator only ever touches the few names nobody else could find. That's the waterfall. Each source catches what the one above it dropped, and your cost stays low because the priciest tool barely runs. Verify every email before you send. Skip it and it costs you: a dead address bounces, and enough bounces train Gmail to file you under spam. An unverified guess is worse than an empty cell. Set it up once in Claude Code, the provider order and a spend cap, then point the agent at your list. It runs the whole cascade, verifies every address, stops at your cap, and gives you one clean file. Every row comes back with the email, the source that found it, and whether it cleared verification. The few nobody could place get flagged, so you skip them and move on. Starting it was the only part that needed you.

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  Vinayak Kamath (@vin_kamath) reported 11 minutes ago

  ALWAYS follow up on your emails if you don't hear back. Gmail spam filters are extremely aggressive. If you have lower than expected inbox placement despite having a good domain reputation or just an individual, make it a habit to send follow-up emails. Just a single follow-up on a thread can bump you into the inbox. Which is how I discovered the problem in the first place.

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  Nilesh Sharma (@NN4775) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Definedge I'm trying to log in to Opstra on my mobile, but I can't find the Gmail option. This seems to be a recurring issue, and many users also struggle to find the Google login option. Could you please guide how to log in using my Gmail on the mobile. Thank you.

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  Muhammad Tukur | MEC (@amiirmu) reported 11 minutes ago

  @_MetaEarth_ We support a future built for verified people, not bots. But please remember that many of the accounts currently unable to log in are genuine users, not automated accounts. Many registered legitimately with Gmail addresses containing a "+" and are now locked out. Please don't let real community members be mistaken for bots. Resolving this issue will strengthen trust in Meta Earth. @_MetaEarth_ @MetaEarthDevs

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  Mahito (@mahito_itadori) reported 14 minutes ago

  how many accounts on: twitter: 1 discord: 1 insta: 1 but i forgot the login so 0 ig facebook: 0 snapchat: 0 tiktok: 0 twitch: 0 steam: 1 youtube: 1 spotify: 1 pinterest: 0 reddit: 0 gmail: 3 telegram: what ******** is that

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  Diluc (@hsaffiliate2025) reported 20 minutes ago

  A product with only 1 follower on IndieHackers — yet reportedly making $9,000/month. That's SpamCipher. A real-time cold email delivery monitor. Here's exactly how it works: • The founder noticed a huge pain: traditional email tools only show data AFTER you send. You find out your email landed in spam days later — too late. • SpamCipher monitors delivery in real-time. It connects to services like SendGrid or Amazon SES and analyzes deliverability as you send. • It gives instant feedback: "Your email has a 60% chance of being flagged by Gmail — change the subject line." Or it auto-switches IPs if one gets blacklisted. • No sending emails itself — it's a layer on top of existing tools. Revenue model: subscription, likely mid-to-high enterprise pricing. He says the $9k/month comes from cold email teams and SaaS companies. Tech stack: Python + ML models for delivery prediction, deployed on AWS or Google Cloud. Hard parts: integrating with email provider APIs (Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo) which change often. And making the ML accurate — false alarms kill trust. Is this for you? Probably not unless you're technical. Email delivery is complex, and cold email can be legally tricky. But the lesson is gold: find a niche pain point where everyone else gives "after-the-fact" data — and offer real-time fixes. You don't need a big audience. Just a product that solves a real problem. Follow for more real AI money breakdowns. #IndieHackers #SaaS

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  Harley Lewis Foote (@harleyfoote_) reported 21 minutes ago

  "Everything runs locally, your data never leaves your device" — sure, but local was never the threat model. Point 300 agents at untrusted web pages while they drive your logged-in Chrome over CDP and you've assembled the lethal trifecta by hand: private session access, attacker-controlled content, and a way to act on it. Brave already showed the shape of this on Comet back in August — hidden text in a spoiler tag talked the agent into opening Gmail and pasting a one-time passcode into a public reply. Keeping the model on-device doesn't fix that; the malicious instruction ships inside the page it was told to read.

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  Atul (@DevWith_Atul) reported 22 minutes ago

  @TechByTaraa Nope , hands down gmail is the best mailing service , I have tried many other service but nothing is even close to gmail

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  Royal_Stray (@StrayRoyal) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TouhouEnjoyer_ I think it depends on how you're being "hit on" if it's a simple "can I get your number/gmail" and leaving it at that, I don't see much reason to complain. But if it's the kind of "hit on" where someone was folloing them around for a while and wouldn't stop that's an an issue.

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  Theonidas (@TheoIsFriendly) reported 26 minutes ago

  Gmail been REAL slow these past few days, what’s up with that