What is spoofing

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domain owners to specify the hosts  permitted to send email on behalf
 
domain owners to specify the hosts  permitted to send email on behalf
 
of their domains. Normal SMTP allows any computer on the net to send
 
of their domains. Normal SMTP allows any computer on the net to send
an email claiming to be from anyone. This is quite often used by spammers to send emails with forged From: addresses. SPF record makes it difficult to forge From: addresses and, therefore, send spoofed emails
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an email claiming to be from anyone. This is quite often used by spammers to send emails with forged ''From:'' addresses. SPF record makes it difficult to forge ''From:'' addresses and, therefore, send spoofed emails
  
 
For example, if you own the domain example.com, you can specify the
 
For example, if you own the domain example.com, you can specify the

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