Scott Then could you add special handling in declude for postmaster and abuse to allow for an alert to be passed back the the sender if the email should be deleted or held and one of the reciepients is postmaster or abuse or mabe the accounts could be configurable. A template email could be used to send back.
Kevin Bilbee > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of R. Scott Perry > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:22 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Declude.JunkMail] whitelist and mult rcpt > > > > >This is directly off the rfc-ignorant.org site. So it is OK to > reject/block > >email to the postmaster as long as the following is applied. > > > >---- > >After careful consideration, there seemed to be a consensus > among users that > >use of blacklists, etc., did not meet the "narrowly tailored" > requirements > >for blocking mail to postmaster, but that it would be undesirable to list > >sites simply for employing the MAPS RBL and such on their postmaster > >address. It was decided that we wouldn't list folks if the > rejection message > >for postmaster seemed to indicate the reason for denial ("{ip} > rejected as > >listed on the MAPS RBL", etc.) > >---- Full text at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-postmaster.php > > Here, they are essentially saying "You can block likely spam to > postmaster@ > *if* the sender is notified of why the E-mail is blocked." > > >I think mail servers should spam scan these emails and delete or hold the > >messaages and possible send a message back with why the message was not > >delivered. If some one really has an issue with mail delivery do > a whois and > >pick up the phone and call, if that number is invalid then?????? > > This is a different issue. The problems here are that [1] The > sender will > never know that their E-mail didn't get read, and [2] The sender > will never > know why their E-mail didn't get read. Bounce messages are a bad thing, > simply because they will cause a lot of spam to spread. > > I remember back in the days where spammers had a very little bit of > courtesy, and would never ever E-mail postmaster@ accounts, and > would never > ever E-mail .org E-mail addresses. > > -Scott > --- > Declude JunkMail: The advanced anti-spam solution for IMail mailservers. > Declude Virus: Catches known viruses and is the leader in mailserver > vulnerability detection. > Find out what you have been missing: Ask for a free 30-day evaluation. > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com. --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] --- This E-mail came from the Declude.JunkMail mailing list. To unsubscribe, just send an E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and type "unsubscribe Declude.JunkMail". The archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com.
