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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 also:
+
+*
[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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