{"id":5910,"date":"2021-03-15T11:38:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/?p=5910"},"modified":"2023-02-16T14:34:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T14:34:46","slug":"e-mail-verification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/e-mail-verification\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Mail Verification"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>3SL E-Mail Policies<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6545\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6545\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6545 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/email_pexels-thirdman-5592598-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Keboard Entry representation - Photo by Thirdman from Pexels\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/email_pexels-thirdman-5592598-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/email_pexels-thirdman-5592598-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">E-Mail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We&#8217;ve changed our mail server slightly. Improving the e-mail verification between ourselves and mail recipients.<\/p>\n<p>Sender Policy Framework (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sender_Policy_Framework\">SPF<\/a>), Domain Keys Identified Mail (<a href=\"https:\/\/dkim.org\/\">DKIM<\/a>), and <span class=\"ILfuVd NA6bn\"><span class=\"e24Kjd\">Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance<\/span><\/span> (<a href=\"https:\/\/dmarc.org\/\">DMARC<\/a>)\u00a0 have been around for a while. Here at 3SL, we&#8217;ve implemented them on our mail server.<\/p>\n<h3>Technologies<\/h3>\n<p>SPF defines which addresses are permitted to send 3SL email.\u00a0 DKIM adds a Public Key Infrastructure (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_key_infrastructure\">PKI<\/a>) signature. This verifies and authenticates email as coming from 3SL, showing its not been modified in transit, or faked. DMARC combines SPF and DKIM to authenticate the emails and reports any emails which do not conform.<\/p>\n<h3>E-Mail Verification Result<\/h3>\n<p>What this means is that all emails claiming to be from 3SL should only be coming from our mail server <strong>mail.threesl.com<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0 This should help stop the occasional 3SL email from ending up filtered off as spam. It should also help identify fake 3SL emails as being unsolicited emails.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/e-mail-verification\/&amp;via=threesl\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.threesl.com%2Fblog%2Fe-mail-verification%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Share<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-small mash-center mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Newsletter<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-small mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3SL E-Mail Policies We&#8217;ve changed our mail server slightly. Improving the e-mail verification between ourselves and mail recipients. Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)\u00a0 have been around for a while. Here at 3SL, we&#8217;ve implemented them on our mail server. Technologies SPF defines which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/e-mail-verification\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;E-Mail Verification&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>E-Mail Verification - 3SL Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"E-Mail Verification Sender Policy Framework (SPF), Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.threesl.com\/blog\/e-mail-verification\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"E-Mail Verification - 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