Tighter Restrictions on Bulk Email Senders
Gmail works hard towards making sure that their users get the safest experience they can muster up, and with a new restriction on bulk email senders going active this month, spam emails and phishing attempts are bound to drop in frequency.
The guideline targets bulk email senders who send more than 5,000 emails to personal Gmail accounts daily. These senders will need to follow the guidelines set in place by Google to make sure that the emails they send out will be successfully delivered, otherwise, a percentage of the non-compliant emails may be rejected outright until those guidelines are met.
Google will also request that bulk email senders authenticate their email domains, as this makes it a lot less likely for the emails to be rejected or sent to spam. These guidelines should stop lazy phishers and spammers from finding their way into your Gmail inbox.
Google Is Constantly Striving To Make Gmail Better For Users
Google focuses heavily on user experience, and that extends to how they handle Gmail too. This recent guideline, in theory, should drastically reduce the amount of spam emails you receive and improve security by cutting back on phishing emails that end up in your inbox.
One of the included guidelines for newsletters and marketing emails, which you might have already noticed in your Gmail application, is that email senders are mandated to include a one-touch unsubscribe button. Yep, that means you don’t have to scramble for the bottom of a mile-long email to be free of its daily annoyances.
In addition, just like your favorite social media platforms, Gmail introduced blue ticks less than a year ago to help you identify when an email is coming from a trusted domain. You don’t see a blue tick on that suspicious-looking email from Amazon? Don’t trust it!
Spam: A Problem Worth Tackling
Unless you’re a fan of the canned meat, nobody wants to receive spam. As of 2022, it was estimated that 162 billion spam emails are sent out every day. With more intelligent software and algorithms from email service providers, most of these emails aren’t allowed into your inbox or end up in the spam folder.
Unsurprisingly, 96.8% of people have attested to receiving any kind of spam, so no one is exempt, even if you feel you take a lot of precautions when browsing the web. Thankfully, Gmail and other email services will continue to improve their software to keep spam levels at a low.
