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- Sender policy framework, or SPF, is a sort of "patch" for internet e-mail systems that allows the operators of an internet domain to post which hosts are allowed — and which are not allowed — to send mail on behalf of their users and allows hosts receiving mail purporting to be from a given domain to look up the policies of this domain to determine whether the mail may be spoofed or illegitimate.
- The "policy" is posted in a specially-formatted TXT record within the domain's DNS setup, and any receiving mail hosts can use special lookup tools to check these records before they accept mail.
- SPF can be thought of as a sort of reverse of the dig mx lookup, allowing receiving mail hosts to look up sending mail hosts for a domain, just as sending hosts can use dig mx to find the receiving hosts for a domain.
- Blowback (automatically-generated return e-mail messages) is an indirect nuisance resulting from spam.
- Most modern e-mail client programs can understand and render HTML-formatted mail messages, and most spams are now delivered in HTML form.
- At any company that isn't an isp or web hosting company, the system administrator (one a system administrator) is usually in charge of the company mail server, and responsible for preventing spam from reaching the company's employees.
- Typically dns queries are done invisibly to the end-user by his applications (web browsers, mail programs, etc.
- Standalone spam blocker software can easily be installed on to your computer, and allows you to preview your mail on the server before downloading it to your computer.
- Procmail is a popular component of unix-based smtp/pop/imap mail systems, and can be configured for spam filtering.
- Procmail is most often found as a component of the mail systems of isps, businesses, and institutions that support large numbers of mail user accounts.
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