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-[Acronym] for __S__ender __P__olicy __F__ramework
+An
[Acronym] for __S__ender __P__olicy __F__ramework.
-[SPF] is
a way of registering in
[DNS] which machines are allowed to send mail
from a domain. This
is used
to help
prevent people from
forging emails from people they are not
, and
hopefully impacting the usefulness of spam
.
+A standard defining
a [DNS] record notation to describe
which machines are originators of legit [Email] coming
from a certain
domain. Its intent
is to prevent forging of sender headers in [Email]
, thus
hopefully making it more difficult to send [Spam]
.
-[SPF] is implemented
in [DNS] with the use of a [
TXT]
ResourceRecord.
+[SPF] records are stored
in TXT ResourceRecord~s
.
-See http
://spf.pobox.com/ for more information on SPF
+See also
:
-For
[MTA] and distribution specific notes on implementing
SPF, see the following
:
-
-* [
spf.pobox.com index
|http://spf.pobox.com/downloads.html]
-* [exim under gentoo
|http://bob.rasey.net/archives/000173.html] and
[Gentoo bug request
|http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58282]
+*
[SPF homepage | http
://
spf.pobox.com/]
+* [SPF libraries and patches
| http://spf.pobox.com/downloads.html] (adding support for various [MTA]s)
+* A
[SPF / Exim / Gentoo
| http://bob.rasey.net/archives/000173.html] note by Bob Rasey
+*
[Gentoo bug 58282: Exim needs SPF support
| http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58282]
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