RFC 6647: Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document describes the art of email greylisting, the practice of providing temporarily degraded service to unknown email clients as an anti-abuse mechanism. Greylisting is an established mechanism deemed essential to the repertoire of current anti-abuse email filtering systems. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC6647
- Published
- June 2012
- Authors
- M. Kucherawy; D. Crocker
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- art
- Pages
- 17
- Also known as
- —
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