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Pxtl@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• nakal@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I honestly hear the first time about this. Who sends you share requests?

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  • Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Basically anyone who knows your Gmail address can spam you with these requests. It's awful because I so rarely get Drive share requests, so I keep notifications on because if somebody actually needs to send me a legitimate file, I'd want to be alerted to it. And there doesn't appear to be much in the way of spam detection on this system.

    Though that might have changed recently. I used to get these very frequently, but I don't think I've seen one for probably a year now. Maybe they finally started detecting spammy share requests? Or maybe I've just been lucky for a minute.

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Am webmaster, can confirm. Huge security nuisance when people in our workgroup start getting drive share requests to malicious files. Especially if they can spoof an email on you through some subdomain you’re unable to protect with DKIM or something, and appear a part of your institution.

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  • Bipta@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not the same person, but all sorts of random "people" - often with Cyrillic characters in the name.

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• Decentralizr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Check skiff.com one click move from Gmail and co. Encryption matters!

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And then never leave them again because all your mail is captive with no way to migrate it.

    Encrypting email at rest is a fool’s errand. It doesn’t protect anything, it’s a waste of resources, makes you jump through hoops and use non-standard apps, keeps you captive to their service, but naive people feel good because “encryption”. Also Skiff are blatantly lying when they say it’s “end to end”.

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  • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I signed up for skiff when looking at providers to move away from Gmail but the one thing that stopped me was they didn’t have a way to export mail. I know it’s on their list but until then I can’t use it.

    Their free tier is very generous too. 15GB of storage is the same I get from Proton as a paying user.

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    • Decentralizr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      skiff.com/blog/gmail-import

      And for proton and others all one click

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      • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I said export not import.

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    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IMAP is good enough to “export” email. Not that hard tbh.

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      • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Normally yes, but Skiff being an “encrypted email” service it doesn’t offer IMAP.

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      • Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Skiff don’t offer IMAP?

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