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by nrki 3392 days ago
If Google was worried about mail being siphoned off (via typos), they'd just have to setup a periodic automatic check.

gail.com don't currently accept email for @gmail.com:

    $ host -t mx gail.com
    gail.com mail is handled by 10 mail.protonmail.ch.

    $ nc -w1 mail.protonmail.ch 25
    220 mail1i.protonmail.ch ESMTP Postfix
    HELO test.com
    250 mail1i.protonmail.ch
    mail from:<test@test.com>
    250 2.1.0 Ok
    rcpt to:<test@gmail.com>
    554 5.7.1 <test@gmail.com>: Relay access denied
    421 4.7.0 mail1i.protonmail.ch Error: too many errors
1 comments
peeters 3392 days ago
I'm lost, probably because I know nothing about SMTP and mail routing. If you were worried about typos where they accidentally use @gail.com instead of @gmail.com, why would it not accepting @gmail.com be relevant?

Or are you talking about a typo in the routing config itself?

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