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Parent topics

• Email system [r]: General overview of how the Internet electronic mail system works. ^[e]
• Spam (e-mail) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Subtopics

Methods

• IP blacklist [r]: A list of known web site addresses that are considered off limits or dangerous. ^[e]
• Email greylisting [r]: A spam prevention method in which the receiving mail server rejects a message the first time it is received. ^[e]
• Email challenge-response [r]: An authentication method that verifies the purported sender's address by sending a challenge to that address. ^[e]

• Whitelisting [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Port filtering [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Closed relays [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Malware [r]: A term created from the words "malicious" and "software", used to describe undesirable or harmful software and changes to a computer. ^[e]
• Botnet [r]: A set of compromised computers which can collectively provide services to a "bot herder". ^[e]
• Denial of service [r]: An attack on a computer or communications system that tries to prevent the system delivering its normal services to its users, ^[e]