Open AccessSender ID: Authenticating E-Mail
Author(s) -
J. Lyon,
M. Wong
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
rfc
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.17487/rfc4406
Subject(s) - communication source , computer science , internet privacy , computer security , computer network
Internet mail suffers from the fact that much unwanted mail is sentusing spoofed addresses -- "spoofed" in this case means that theaddress is used without the permission of the domain owner. Thisdocument describes a family of tests by which SMTP servers candetermine whether an e-mail address in a received message was usedwith the permission of the owner of the domain contained in thate-mail address. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for theInternet community.
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