/feb-2024-no-auth-no-entry

A tracking of the differences between official announcements related to "No Auth, No Entry" at Google and Yahoo! starting from February 2024

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NO AUTH, NO ENTRY STARTING FROM FEBRUARY 2024

A tracking of the differences between official announcements related to "No Auth, No Entry" at Google and Yahoo! starting from February 2024.

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Requirements for downloading

Makefile require the following commands to download the original HTML file, to convert the TEXT file.

  • perl
  • wget
  • w3m
% make updates (download all the HTML file from all the ESPs)
% make check-google (download all the HTML file from Google)
% make 81126 (download https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126 only)
...

make command above generates ./*.txt file in the top directory of this repository by w3m -M command from each downloaded HTML file.

Check differences(1)

If there is an important update, we will add a tag in the format "YYYY-MM-DD" as follows.

% git tag -l
...
2023-12-11
2023-12-20
2023-12-24

To check what has changed between October and December, please run the git diff command with the file name as follows.

% git diff 2023-10-03 2023-12-20 ./google-81126*txt
diff --git a/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt b/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
index 2496278..ee32aaa 100644
--- a/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
+++ b/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Skip to main content

 Gmail Help
 [                    ]
-
+●
 Sign in

 Google Help
@@ -39,22 +39,29 @@ recipients to unsubscribe. Learn more about requirements for sending 5,000 or
 more emails per day.

 The guidelines in this article can help you successfully send and deliver email
-to Gmail accounts. A Gmail account is one of these account types:
-
-  β€’ A personal account that ends in @gmail.com or @googlemail.com
-  β€’ A work or school account from Google Workspace. These account types don’t
-    end in @gmail.com.
+to personal Gmail accounts. A personal Gmail account is an account that ends in
+@gmail.com or @googlemail.com.
...

Check differences(2)

The google-81126-email-sender-guidelines/text directory has files for the days that important changes were made. The following command can also be used to check the changes made in October and December.

% cd ./google-81126-email-sender-guidelines/text
% diff -u 81126-2023-10-03.txt 81126-2023-12-02.txt
--- 81126-2023-10-03.txt	2023-12-26 22:00:49.000000000 +0900
+++ 81126-2023-12-02.txt	2023-12-26 22:42:38.000000000 +0900
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 Gmail Help
 [                    ]
-
+●
 Sign in

 Google Help
@@ -39,11 +39,8 @@
 more emails per day.

 The guidelines in this article can help you successfully send and deliver email
-to Gmail accounts. A Gmail account is one of these account types:
-
-  β€’ A personal account that ends in @gmail.com or @googlemail.com
-  β€’ A work or school account from Google Workspace. These account types don’t
-    end in @gmail.com.
+to personal Gmail accounts. A personal Gmail account is an account that ends in
+@gmail.com or @googlemail.com.
...

Check differences(3)

To check for important updates, run git diff google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt after running the make updates command.

% make updates (OR make 81126)
...
% git diff google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
diff --git a/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt b/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
index ee32aaa..518f70d 100644
--- a/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
+++ b/google-81126-email-sender-guidelines.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Next

 Gmail

-  β€’ Send bulk emails
+  β€’ Bulk email sending guidelines & tools
   β€’ Email sender guidelines
...