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Email Authentication


Technical standards to help ISPs and other receivers validate the identity of an email sender.

Email authentication refers to technical standards that help ISPs and other receivers validate the identity of an email sender. There are three authentication standards in use:

  • SPF developed by Meng Weng Wong of Pobox.com
  • Sender ID developed by Microsoft
  • DKIM developed by Yahoo!.