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by ocdtrekkie 3541 days ago
There is a very easy solution to this, which I believe Gmail employs: Place a very noticeable banner on the inbox when all your email is being forwarded to another address.
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I forward everything that _does not_ match a specific string using the filter feature in Gmail, and I get no such banner. It is a company owned email, with a custom domain and such, but should not differ in this case.
The banner only shows for a week after you set it up.
That's assuming everyone composes e-mails through the web UI. Maybe they don't want to make that assumption.
Should just auto reset forwarding when a password reset is done.
We had such an attack recently; the banner disappears after a time (also, users don't read banners)