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RFC 4406

"Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail", April 2006

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Status:
EXPERIMENTAL
Authors:
J. Lyon
M. Wong
Stream:
IETF
Source:
NON WORKING GROUP

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Abstract

Internet mail suffers from the fact that much unwanted mail is sent using spoofed addresses -- "spoofed" in this case means that the address is used without the permission of the domain owner. This document describes a family of tests by which SMTP servers can determine whether an e-mail address in a received message was used with the permission of the owner of the domain contained in that e-mail address. This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.


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