Pro Exchange Administration: Understanding On-premises and Hybrid Exchange Deployments

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J. Wesselius, M. de RooijPro Exchange Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9591-5_7

7. Email Authentication

Jaap Wesselius¹   and Michel de Rooij²

(1)

MARKNESSE, Flevoland, The Netherlands

(2)

VLEUTEN, Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

This chapter is about email authentication as part of email security and message hygiene. Email authentication is the process of making sure that the sender is allowed to send email on behalf of the domain of the sender. In other words, is my sending server edge01.proexchangeadmin.com allowed to send email on behalf of the proexchangeadmin.com domain?

The authentication process consists of the following techniques:

• SPF: Sender ...