Well...live and learn.  Guess we'll have to change that, but boy did it work
well...

Darin.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Dorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] How to disable/remove postmaster account


On Sunday, September 12, 2004, 21:28:33, Darin Cox wrote:
>   ...
> What we've done is to put a vacation message on the postmaster
> accounts telling of a separate address to use to contact the
> postmaster for the domain. If it's spam the vacation message is
> undeliverable, but if it's real then the sender can forward to the new
> address.

The postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org listing policy
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-postmaster.php
clearly states

  Further, if a postmaster address contains a "redirecting
  auto-acknowledgement", such that it is obvious that the message will
  not be received by a human (as specified in the RFCs), that shall also
  be considered a listable offense. Auto-acks suggesting "better places"
  to send e-mail are certainly useful and encouraged, however, it must
  be clear that the e-mail that generated the auto-ack will in fact be
  dealt with.

  So, for example, BIGISP.COM could include an autoresponse that says:
    Thanks for contacting the postmaster; in the future you might get
    faster service if you send the complaint to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for
    mail abuse issues, [EMAIL PROTECTED] for technical support issues,
    or [EMAIL PROTECTED] for billing issues.

  They could not say:
    Thank you for contacting bigisp.com. Please resend your question to
    one of the following addresses, based on the specific nature of the
    complaint.

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