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What is Spoofing? Email spoofing is sending an email as someone else in attempt to “phish” or trick someone into thinking the email is from someone it is not. There are a few different methods used;
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Diagnostic Test Email Definitions E1-E10 |
Email E1 One valid email from emailSpoofTest.com to make sure you get our emails (should be deliverd to inbox)
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Email E3 One email from a badDMARC.com where the policy is to strictly reject all email (should be rejected by your email servers)
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Email E5 One email from badDKIM.com where the policy is to reject email without a DKIM signature (should be rejected by your email servers)
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Email E7 One email from badSPF.com that rejects all email but has no DMARC policy defined (should be rejected by your email servers)
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Email E9 One email from your sending email address (should be rejected by your email servers and your DMARC monitoring should raise an alert). This tests spoofing internal mail from the outside. It sends a mail from you to you but from our servers. If internal authentication is properly set this email should not get to your inbox. |
Email E10 One email from a domain that does not exist (should not deliver to inbox). This test is sent from a non-existing domain "garbageRANDOMNUMBERf.com". If this email gets to your inbox or junkmail your email system accepts email from nonexisting domains. |
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