Sender ID: Authenticating E-Mail

نویسندگان

Jim Lyon

Meng Weng Wong

چکیده

Internet mail suffers from the fact that much unwanted mail is sent using spoofed addresses -"spoofed" in this case means 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.

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