Author Archives: Nicholas Sciberras
Is Spam a form of Marketing/Advertising?
Arguably, spam forms part of the email marketing tool used by marketers for direct advertising. We never asked for or subscribed to most marketing messages that we receive on a daily basis. So how is spam different? Let’s first take …
How to remove hidden network adapters from virtual machines
When using virtualization on a Microsoft environment such as Hyper-V you can easily have network problems when restoring a Virtual hard drive or changing a network card. With some operating systems on Hyper-V you may notice that the network adapter …
GFI MailEssentials and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) – what is it and how does it work? (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this post we examined how SPF works. Now we’ll go into how to create and publish SPF records. Creating an SPF record for your domain The procedure outlined below can be divided into several stages: Determine …
GFI MailEssentials and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) – what is it and how does it work? (Part 1)
The Sender Policy Framework (SPF) is a community-based effort that requires senders to publish their mail server in an SPF record. This record is used to detect forged senders. How does SPF work? The basic idea behind Sender Policy Framework …









