Increased email security: Gmail & campus email address
Posted: 2024-08-04 09:32:25 Expiration: 2024-09-30 09:32:25
If you are using a campus email address (e.g. bbadger@wisc.edu) to send email from a personal Gmail account this news article applies to you.
We recommend you stop this practice for 2 reasons:
- Email sent this way does not pass email authentication checks.
- Google no longer supports adding unauthenticated Send As addresses.
If you continue using a UW-Madison email address to send from your Gmail account, your emails will fail email authentication and will go to the recipient's junk folder.
What do you need to do?
We encourage you to remove your UW-Madison email address from your gmail.com account. Here’s how:
- You will find the configuration in your Gmail account settings, under "accounts and imports".
- Look for "send mail as".
- Remove the UW-Madison email address from the configuration.
- For more information see Google documentation: Send emails from a different address or alias.
Email authentication: What’s changing
This summer, we are taking steps to further protect you from fake emails that pretend to be from trusted sources. Beginning August 5, 2024, we will enable email authentication checks for all email you receive. If an email fails authentication, it will go to your junk folder. See our recent news post for more details.
-- Email Authentication Project Team