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Is Email Authentication Important to Prevent Phishing?

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  As spammers and phishers begin to use email to send unwanted or malicious messages, email security has become more essential. When email messages enter their rightful owners, many email servers use a variety of protocols to validate them. Messages that aren't correctly checked are more likely to have delivery issues and probably wind up undeliverable or in the junk folder. DMARC services The most recent authentication method, DMARC , is based on both SPF and DKIM. That's a way for senders to tell recipients which authentication systems to look for and what needs to be done if a message pretending to be from them fails the tests. Commands could involve identifying the message as quarantined and thus suspicious, or fully refusing the message. You may think why the sender would allow those messages that won’t pass DMARC to be delivered. DMARC also offers a feedback section so that senders could monitor whether messages that appear to be coming from their domains are accepted or