Obviously legitimate mailers would be thrilled if this stopped the spam cluttering people's in-boxes, making way for permission-messages to be heard.īut, that's not really what Sender ID does.
Later, - no one knows precisely when - Microsoft will start either shifting non-passes directly to recipient's junk mail boxes or blocking nonpasses altogether.įor more general info, see link below to Microsoft's official What's Sender ID page. (See link below to instructional booklet with screenshot of what this looks like.) The recipient will still see the whole message in their in-box though. Microsoft says at first the filter will be nothing more than a yellow alert line to the recipient that the message in question didn't pass the test. If your email fails the test, it will be filtered by Hotmail. (There's no single standard now and other companies who are also inventing authentication programs call them by different names.)īasically, the program checks official DNS records (the records of who owns an URL) to make sure that email senders, based on the email address in the visible "from" line, are who they say they are. Sender ID is Microsoft's version of an email sender authentication program. Here's a quick FAQ and four useful hotlinks so you can sound like an expert. If you're like most emailers, you're probably about to call your vendor or IT department to make sure you're covered.
After discussing Sender ID implementation for almost a year but denying (even as recently as two weeks ago) that it was happening anytime soon, Microsoft abruptly gave emailers just a few days' notice that Sender ID was launching.