{"id":12565,"date":"2017-03-02T18:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T22:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=12565"},"modified":"2021-11-18T15:13:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T15:13:42","slug":"receiving-fake-e-mails-from-your-own-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/receiving-fake-e-mails-from-your-own-domain","title":{"rendered":"Receiving fake e-mails from your own domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NOTE: <\/strong>  Please do not use this if you are using \u201cSplit-Domain\u201d whereby some mailboxes are hosted with someone else and some mailboxes with us.  This is also true for customers who use our POP3\/MSM along with Exchange Services.<\/p>\n<p>In certain cases, you might receive e-mails which have your domains name or your e-mail address but you have not sent those mails.  This is due to spoofing.  Spammers use this method to send e-mails from their own servers by faking the existing e-mail addresses and domains.  This is a very old and well known method of \u201cimpersonating\u201d.  Spammers have used this method for popular domains like yahoo.com; Microsoft.com; gmail.com and so on.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what you need to do; to ensure that you don\u2019t receive fake e-mails from your own domain in your mailbox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong>  You might still receive fake e-mails from other domains.  These steps will ensure that you don\u2019t receive fake\/spoofed e-mails from your own domain.<br \/>\nYou need to add an SPF record for your domain; by following these steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong>  Please wait for few hours for the DNS to propagate over the Internet for your new SPF records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTE: Please do not use this if you are using \u201cSplit-Domain\u201d whereby some mailboxes are hosted with someone else and some mailboxes with us. This is also true for customers who use our POP3\/MSM along with Exchange Services. 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