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Quarantine
RBL
RFC
SMTP
SMTP Pipelining
Specific Access Pattern
STA
Static route
Subnet mask
Syslog
TCP/IP
A protected area for storing messages that contain viruses or are
considered spam. Messages can be deleted from the quarantine or
released back into an email inbox.
Realtime Blackhole List. A list of servers that are considered sources of
known spam.
Request for Comments. A series of notes on Internet technologies.
RFC's can evolve to become actual Internet standards.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. An IETF standard protocol used for
transferring mail across a network reliably and efficiently (as defined in
RFC 821).
Several SMTP commands are sent together in the same network
packet.
Defines an access pattern to match for on a specific part of an SMTP
connection.
SSL
Secure Sockets Layer. A protocol for encrypting and securing private
data over the Internet.
Statistical Token Analysis. A method of identifying spam messages
based on statistical analysis of email content.
A routing entry ensuring connectivity to systems on other networks.
A subnet mask is used to divide the device part of the IP address into two
further parts. The first part identifies the subnet number. The second part
identifies the device on that subnet.
A syslog server collects and stores log files from many sources.
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. This is the name for
two of the most well-known protocols developed for the
interconnection of networks. Originally a UNIX standard, TCP/IP is now
supported on almost all platforms, and is the protocol of the Internet.
TCP relates to the content of the data travelling through a network —
ensuring that the information sent arrives in one piece when it reaches
its destination. IP relates to the address of the endstation to which data
is being sent, as well as the address of the destination network.
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