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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 | 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 |
authorized hosts to send email originating from ''user@example.com''. | authorized hosts to send email originating from ''user@example.com''. | ||
Setting up a record will ensure that messages sent from users in your | Setting up a record will ensure that messages sent from users in your |