Anybody despairing at the amount of spam they're receiving in their inbox may do well to consider the plight of one UK IT manager who has had to deal with around 500,000 unsolicited emails in just two months.silicon.com was contacted by the IT...
AOL has been blocking emails from top US ISP Comcast and is desperately working to find a fix for its spam-busting system. Large Internet service providers such as Comcast must register their e-mail server configurations to communicate with AOL.
The new tool will allow incoming emails to be scanned and attached with a numeric score, or Spam Confidence Level (SCL). Based on a threshold set by an administrator, the message will be forwarded to either the recipient's inbox or junk mail folder.
SPF, which preceded Microsoft's own efforts, took another approach, putting authentication at the start of the process of sending and receiving email -- the simple message transport protocol (SMTP). It's used by spammers to disguise the origin of...
On the receiving end, a DKIM-enabled mail server extracts the signature and uses the public key to verify that the signature was generated by the sending domain. The idea is to make it easier to eliminate spam or phishing emails with spoofed...
But customers have faced extended delays in receiving email, with one user complaining of a week-long outage.said the problem was initially caused by a surge in incoming email, which caused delays. After finally making contact with the company last...
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