Email Greylisting: An Applicability Statement for SMTP

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Standard
Pages: 17
Abstract: 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]
Publication Date: 2012-06-01
Status Note: Proposed Standard
DOI: 10.17487/RFC6647
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC6647
Author(s): Murray Kucherawy
Dave Crocker
Keyword(s): Email, Greylisting, Spam

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IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5321 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5598 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6409 [Active*]

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Harris, E., "The Next Step in the Spam Control War: Greylisting", August 2003, < http://projects.puremagic.com/greylisting/ whitepaper.html >. EXTERNAL
Jackson, I., "GNU SAUCE", 2001, < http://www.gnu.org/software/sauce >. EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 1035 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 2131 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3022 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4632 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5322 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 5782 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 7208 [Active*]