Showing posts with label electronic mail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic mail. Show all posts
Monday, December 22, 2008
SPF entry in DNS to counter Spammers
Each day I get a few "bounces" of email messages I never sent. To counter this I am asking my ISP to insert an SPF record in the DNS entry for my domain name. The problem is that spammers can forge an e-mail message from me by putting my e-mail address as the sender's address. To counter this a list of the mail servers I use can be inserted in the DNS record for my web site. When a mail system gets a message claiming to be from me, it can check if it came from one of the list of mail servers I nominated. I not sure how well this works in pratice. There is the catch that if I have to cange where I send my mail from, I have to remember to change the DNS record, or my mail will be treated as Spam.
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