{
  "id": 2552863,
  "title": "The Schrödinger Email",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/22/the-schrodinger-email",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-22T09:53:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://yashgarg.dev/posts/the-schrodinger-email/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In a recent ordeal involving email forwarding and authentication issues, a person faced frustration while attempting to retain original sender information for their bank statements. They created a separate email account where they could forward emails via mail rules, but found that forwarding removed the original sender information. This issue was compounded by Gmail's suspicious rejection of the test email due to the low reputation of the sending domain, despite successful authentication by Outlook on the first hop. The person discovered that SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are standard email authentication protocols designed to verify the origin of emails and prevent spoofing and abuse. They learned that forwarding can create complications, as it changes the server delivering the message. They also found that Outlook's Mailbox Rules Agent was responsible for generating the redirected delivery, which was not a manual action. Despite trying workarounds like using an Outlook.com alias and setting up additional forwarding layers, the authentication and reputation issues persisted. Ultimately, the person decided to manually move their banking-related emails from Outlook to their Gmail address to avoid further complications with the email infrastructure.",
  "summary": "Tracing my way around a failed email redirection. Comments",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}