What is spoofing

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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
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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

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