Email Authentication Method
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An Email Authentication Method is a authentication method for email messaging.
- See: DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), Authentication, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Email Spoofing, DMARC, Email Filtering.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/email_authentication Retrieved:2019-9-8.
- Email authentication, or validation, is a collection of techniques aimed at providing verifiable information about the origin of email messages by validating the domain ownership of any message transfer agents (MTA) who participated in transferring and possibly modifying a message.
The original base of Internet email, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), has no such feature, so forged sender addresses in emails (a practice known as email spoofing) have been widely used in phishing, email spam, and various types of fraud. To combat this, a large number of competing email authentication proposals have been developed, but only fairly recently have three been widely adopted – SPF, DKIM and DMARC. The results of such validation can be used in automated email filtering, or can assist recipients when selecting an appropriate action.
This article does not cover user authentication of email submission and retrieval.
- Email authentication, or validation, is a collection of techniques aimed at providing verifiable information about the origin of email messages by validating the domain ownership of any message transfer agents (MTA) who participated in transferring and possibly modifying a message.