E-mail

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General

Receiving

Sending

Misc

Tools

Clients

mail

list
  show commands
[number]
  select message
r
  reply
mail test@example.com
  send message

mailx

mutt

other

Web

Xuheki

Horde

Roundcube

Other

IMAP

SMTP

Testing

openssl s_client -connect localhost.com:995

Server

Stack and components

  • Scrollout F1 is an easy to use, already adjusted email firewall (gateway) offering free anti-spam, anti-virus protection and Data Loss Prevention aiming to secure existing email servers, old or new, such as Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Postfix, Exim, Sendmail, Qmail and others.

SPF

The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is an open standard specifying a technical method to prevent sender address forgery. More precisely, the current version of SPF — called SPFv1 or SPF Classic — protects the envelope sender address, which is used for the delivery of messages. See the box on the right for a quick explanation of the different types of sender addresses in e-mails.

(There are other solutions that protect the header sender address or that do not care at all about who sent the message, only who originally wrote it.)

Even more precisely, SPFv1 allows the owner of a domain to specify their mail sending policy, e.g. which mail servers they use to send mail from their domain. The technology requires two sides to play together: (1) the domain owner publishes this information in an SPF record in the domain's DNS zone, and when someone else's mail server receives a message claiming to come from that domain, then (2) the receiving server can check whether the message complies with the domain's stated policy. If, e.g., the message comes from an unknown server, it can be considered a fake.

Once you are confident about the authenticity of the sender address, you can finally "take it for real" and attach reputation to it. While IP-address-based reputation systems like Spamhaus or SpamCop have prevailed so far, reputation will increasingly be based on domains and even individual e-mail addresses in the future, too. Furthermore, additional kinds of policies are planned for a future version of SPF, such as asserting that all of a domain's outgoing mail is S/MIME or PGP signed.

DKIM

Anti-spam

Anti-spam;

Notifications

Systems

Encryption

See Comms#PGP_.2F_GPG

Services

Gmail

Google Apps

£3.30/user/month, or £33/user/year

Zoho

Zimbra

"/opt/zimbra/zdesktop/linux/prism/zdclient" |
-webapp "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/zdesktop.webapp" |
-override "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/zdesktop.webapp/override.ini" |
-profile "/home/milk/.zdesktop/data/profile"

other

Bulk sending

Articles

HTML

Other

Mailing List

OSS service