I guess every blog faced it, faces it and will continue to face the spammers menace. They seems to be everywhere, spamming every blog that gets created. I spent last few days looking at what kind of messages people post in the comments section, which eventually gets taken care by the great Akismet plugin my blog trusts upon. There are rare incidents when a spam comment bypasses the watchful eyes of Akismet and gets posted until I take care of
Continue ReadingWe all know how useful the anti-spam engines are that help us by handling most of the spam emails themselves and not let them make their way into our inbox. But what would you say if these anti-spam engines mark your legitimate emails as spam and because you don’t look inside your spam folder under the assumption that they contain only the REAL spam emails, you miss on genuine emails? You might face serious problems when one of these happens
Continue ReadingSender Policy Framework or SPF is the Anti-Forgery solution, that checks the return path of an email address and makes it easier to identify spoofed emails. Domain owners identify sending mail servers in DNS. SMTP receivers verify the envelope sender address against this information, and can distinguish authentic messages from forgeries before any message data is transmitted. Under normal circumstances, when you send an email from a mail server and if your mail server permits sending emails from non-local domains
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