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Strengthening Email Security: Our New Approach to Non-RFC Compliant Emails

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Puneeth
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Mar 17, 2025
In our ongoing commitment to enhance email security and protect our users from malicious activities, we are making changes in handling emails with non RFC-compliant  P2Sender addresses. This change r...
Updated Mar 17, 2025
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ajanes-arc
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Mar 18, 2025

This article mentions the use of RFCs to determine whether or not the from header is compliant. Can you point to the exact RFCs you are utilizing to setup this determination? Is it just RFC5322? Or is it more than that?

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    Mar 25, 2025

    It's RFC 5322 and RFC 6854.