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4. Select IP Exceptions or Email Exceptions tab to configure IP addresses and/or recipients to
exclude from SPF checks:
IP exception list: Entries in this list automatically pass SPF checks. Select IPException List
checkbox,add a new IP address and description and click Add. To remove entries, select entries
from the list and click Remove Selected. To disable the IP exception list unselect IPException
List checkbox.
NOTE
When adding IP addresses to the IP exception list, you can also add a range of IP
addresses using the CIDR notation.
Email exception list: This option ensures that certain email senders or recipients are excluded
from SPF checking, even if the messages are rejected.Select Email Exception List checkbox,add
a new email address and description and click Add. To remove entries, select entries from the
list and click Remove Selected. To disable the Email exception list unselect Email Exception
List checkbox. An email address can be entered in any of the following three ways:
localpart - ‘abuse’ (matches ‘[e-mail]’, ‘[e-mail]’, etc...)
domain - ‘@abc.com’ (matches ‘[e-mail]’, ‘[e-mail]’, etc...)
complete - ‘[e-mail]’ (only matches ‘[e-mail]’)
5. Click Actions tab to select the actions to perform on messages identified as spam. For more
information, refer to Spam Actions - What to do with spam emails (page 135).
6. Click Apply to save settings.
7.1.8 Anti-Spoofing
Checks emails received with a sender email address claiming to originate from your own domain
against a list of IP addresses by GFI MailEssentials. If the sender IP address is not on the list of own-
domain server IP addresses, email is blocked.
This filter is NOT enabled by default.
WARNING
If enabling this feature do not whitelist internal users since this defeats Anti-Spoofing
check.
Enabling and configuring Anti-Spoofing
1. Go to Anti-Spam > Anti-Spam Filters > Anti-Spoofing.