Anti-spam techniques/Related Articles
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Parent topics
- Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. [e]
- Spam (e-mail) [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Granularity
Methods
- Email greylisting [r]: A spam prevention method in which the receiving mail server rejects a message the first time it is received. [e]
- Email challenge-response [r]: An authentication method that verifies the purported sender's address by sending a challenge to that address. [e]
- Bounce Address Tag Validation [r]: A method, defined in an Internet Draft, for determining whether the bounce address specified in an E-mail message is valid. [e]
- Sender Rewriting Scheme [r]: A scheme for email relays to rewrite the Return Address on a forwarded message, allowing the forwarder to intercept any bounces. [e]
- Whitelisting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Blacklisting [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Port filtering [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Closed relays [r]: Add brief definition or description
Related topics
- Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. [e]
- Botnet [r]: A set of compromised computers which can collectively provide services to a "bot herder". [e]
- Denial of service [r]: An attack on a computer or communications system that tries to prevent the system delivering its normal services to its users, [e]