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list owner

Software; Email

The organization or individual who has gathered a list of email addresses. Ownership does not necessarily imply "with permission."

list rental

Software; Email

The process in which a publisher or advertiser pays a list owner to send its messages to that list. Usually involves the list owner sending the message's on the advertiser's ...

list sale

Software; Email

The actual purchase of a mailing list along with the rights to mail it directly. Permission can only be "sold" if the subsequent mailings continue to match the frequency, brand ...

mail bomb

Software; Email

An orchestrated attempt to shut down a mail server by sending more messages than it can handle in a short period of time. See DOS.

mail exchange (MX) record

Software; Email

A mail exchanger record (MX record) is a type of resource record in the Domain Name System that specifies a mail server responsible for accepting email messages on behalf of a ...

mail loop

Software; Email

A communication error between two email servers, usually happening when a misconfigured email triggers an automated response from the recipient server.