The postmaster box is intended to go to the manager of the mail system. Even for hosted domains, that is typically the admin of the IMail box (in your case you I would assume).
We by default automatically direct all postmaster@ and abuse@ for our hosted domains to our "main" postmaster and abuse boxes so we check them. Most of our hosting customers would not know what to do with messages received there anyways, or worse just let the box fill up and then start rejecting messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] FWIW, you can get great data and handle issues for all domains hosted on your box, but you also get tons more junk when funnelling tons of domain postmaster boxes into one (and we have spam filtering quite light to make sure we get important messages, such as working with a spamcop listed server admin trying to get his stuff fixed). If the ethics question in an issue, post something about your practices in your service agreement or terms of service - and for those who do actually want to check/manage it themselves give them that option. Tony >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ted Galerneau >Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 3:30 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spammer forges 'from' address > > >Is there an RFC about being the Postmaster for all of your client's domains >that you host? In other words, would it be ok to have all emails from or to >all postmasters go the server admin? Doing so could tell an admin a lot of >useful things like, if an email is not reaching a valid domain because of a >Spam filter, if you clients are spamming and more. But logic says rerouting >mail intended for a client is probably not ethical. > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:47 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spammer forges 'from' address > >What I did was to focus on the subject lines used. Most of them were >handled by five different statements. >I have since deleted these rules or I would send them to you. >Tim > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel >Armstrong >Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 4:33 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spammer forges 'from' address > >Hi Tim, > >We thought about that, but I wasn't sure how to create rules that would >specifically catch NDAs. I'm sure that most of the messages come from >'administrator' or 'postmaster' - a rule with those variables might stop >a >lot of the messages. Did you discover any rules that worked particularly >well? > >Thanks, > >Daniel > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:24 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spammer forges 'from' address >> >> What we ended up doing for one user was to setup inbound rules to move >> the messages to a junk folder. It took about 2 weeks before it >cleared >> up. But he was getting up to 1800 a day. >> >> Tim >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel >> Armstrong >> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 2:36 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: [IMail Forum] Spammer forges 'from' address >> >> Hi, >> >> We have an occasional problem whereby one of our user's e-mail address >> is >> used as the 'from' address by a spammer and all of the non-delivery >> notices >> are sent to the forged 'from' address. Normally this problem is >resolved >> as >> quickly as it starts, but we have one particular instance of this >> problem >> that has been happening for about 10 days (the user is getting about >100 >> NDRs a day). >> >> Is there anything we can do about this other than wait for it to stop >> (if >> the user does not want to change e-mail addresses)? >> >> Is there anything that we are doing as the mail host provider that >might >> be >> causing this problem (or is it just bad luck)? We don't publish any >user >> information, and we counsel our users not to publish their e-mail >> address if >> they don't want a lot of unsolicited e-mail. >> >> Thanks for your advice. >> >> Daniel >> >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> List Archive: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ >> >> To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >> List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >> Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: >http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > >To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html >List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ >Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.788 / Virus Database: 533 - Release Date: 11/1/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. 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