Acronyms

This section displays acronyms sorted alphabetically and linked to their definition in the glossary.

• AAA – Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

• ACL – Access Control List

• ADSP – Author Domain Signing Practises

• ARF – Abuse Reporting Format

• ARP – Address Resolution Protocol

• BIND – Berkeley Internet Name Domain

• C14N – Canonicalization

• CBV – SMTP Callback Verification

• CIDR – Classless Inter-Domain Routing

• CSAPI – Content Scanning Application Programming Interface

• DDL – Data Definition Language

• DHA – Directory Harvest Attack

• DK – Yahoo! Domain Keys

• DKIM – Domain Keys Identified Mail

• DML – Data Manipulation Language

• DNSBL – DNS Block List

• DSN – Delivery Status Notification

• ESP – Email Service Provider

• FBL – Feedback Loop

• FCrDNS – Forward Confirmed Reverse DNS

• FQDN – Fully Qualified Domain Name

• ICU – International Component for Unicode

• IPC – Inter-process Communication Sockets

• IPv4 – Internet Protocol version 4

• LDAP – Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

• LMTP – Local Mail Transfer Protocol

• MAC – Media Access Control Address

• MDA – Mail Delivery Agent

• MDN – Message Disposition Notification

• MIB – Management Information Base

• MIME – Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

• MTA – Mail Transfer Agent

• MUA – Mail User Agent

• NAS – Network-Attached Storage

• NAT – Network Address Translation

• NDR – Non-Delivery Receipt

• ODBC – Open Database Connectivity

• PCRE – Perl Compatible Regular Expressions

• PEM – Privacy Enhanced Mail

• POSIX – Portable Operating System Interface

• PRA – Purported Responsible Address

• PTR – Pointer Records

• RADIUS – Remote Authentication Dial In User Service

• RAID – Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks

• RBL – Realtime Block List

• RFC – Request For Comment

• RHSBL – Right Hand Side Block List

• RPM – Redhat Package Manager

• RRD – Round Robin Database

• RSS – Resident Set Size

• SMTP – Simple Message Transfer Protocol

• SNMP – Simple Network Management Protocol

• SPF – Sender Policy Framework

• SURBL – Spam URI Realtime Block Lists

• TLS – Transport Layer Security

• TTL – Time-to-Live

• UDP – User Datagram Protocol

• VERP – Variable Envelope Return Path

• p0f – Passive operating system (OS) fingerprinting