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Email authentication overview

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Email authentication overview

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Welcome back. Before talking about the e-mail authentication protocols and SPF DKIM DMARC records, it is important that you know what e-mail authentication is and why it is necessary, especially in Google Workspace. In this session, we will look into what e-mail authentication is, why it matters, the risks of not using it and how Google Workspace relies on e-mail authentication. Simply put, e-mail authentication is a set of techniques and standards designed to verify the identity of the sender of an e-mail. Think of it like a digital form of identification for emails. Just as you might check someone's ID to ensure they are who they claim to be, e-mail authentication helps receiving mail servers confirm that an e-mail truly originated from the domain, it says it did, and has not been tampered with along the way. It's like putting a seal or signature on your outgoing mail that says, yes, this really came from my domain, and it has not been tampered with. e-mail authentication helps mail…

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