New Feature Designed to Decrease Unauthorized Use of Customers' Domains for Spam. November 27, 2006; 12:37 AM
WebsiteDirect.biz has equipped its hosting Control Panel with another tool, SPF, designed
to give customers more control over their domain's sender policy.
SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework, and is an extension of SMTP
that stops e-mail spammers from forging the "From" fields in an e-mail.
As SMTP itself does not carry an authenticating mechanism, the SPF
extension provides the authentication scheme by specifying which
computers are authorized to send email from a specific domain. In order
to use SPF, the domain sending e-mails must establish an SPF record
that is published in the DNS records.
When the e-mail passes through the DNS server, it is compared to the
SPF record for that domain to determine if the sender is indeed
authorized to transmit e-mails from that sender's address. If the
e-mail comes from a domain that is not authorized, the DNS server will
not forward the e-mail to the expected destination.
This new feature is available immediately.
About WebsiteDirect.biz
WebsiteDirect.biz (www.websitedirect.biz)
is a Web hosting company that specializes in serving small businesses.
The company is based in Mechanicsville, Virginia-USA, and employs over
50 people.
WebsiteDirect PR Department, phone: +1.804.229.0583, fax: +1.804.746.1889
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