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by brightball 1600 days ago
That’s a huge security issue! Geez.

If anybody realizes you’re using that service they can immediately impersonate you.

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The email standards explicitly allow everyone to impersonate anyone. That’s why you should use S/MIME and PGP.
That's not true. SPF and DKIM were explicitly made to prevent email forging by authenticating the server, and the server is responsible for authenticating the user.

Please name even a single major mail provider that allows to send emails with arbitrary "from" headers.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7208 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7489

If you’re using DKIM to sign the outgoing message it’s a huge flaw if your service provider is signing other peoples emails with your key just because they included the domain. You authenticate to the server for a reason.