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Gmail may add an extra verification step when you try to do things like adding a forwarding address and editing your filters, Google announced in a blog post on Wednesday. The extra step could help prevent a bad actor who has access to your account from filtering emails in ways you don’t expect or forwarding emails to a new address without you knowing.
Here are the specific scenarios where Google may add the additional step, from Google’s post:
Filters: creating a new filter, editing an existing filter, or importing filters.
Forwarding: Adding a new forwarding address from the Forwarding and POP/IMAP settings.
IMAP access: Enabling the IMAP access status from the settings. (Workspace admins control whether this setting is visible to…