On Thu, May 01, 2025 at 09:16:16AM -0500, Brian Knight via mailop wrote:
> [Resending due to mail alias issues on my side]

> On 2025-05-01 06:25, postfix--- via mailop wrote:
>> Hello mailops:
>> How does one report an insistent spammer to Mailgun?

You can't, because they're not listening. Or if they are listening, the net
effect is indistinguishable from them not listening. You're an externality,
not their paying customer, so they don't want to hear from you.

>> does it even make sense to report?

No, it's a complete waste of your time. Time which could be better spent
reconfiguring your mailserver to reject everything from Mailgun, or at least
using their network as a strong spam signal and scoring mail from there more
highly in your spamfiltering rules if you have users who expect to receive
"legitimate" mails sent via Mailgun.

> https://www.google.com/search?q=mailgun+spam+reporting -->
> [email protected]

Apart from it being rather patronising to suggest that subscribers to this
list don't know how to use Google or are unaware that abuse@domain is the
RFC-standard reporting address, [email protected] appears to be aliased to
/dev/null.

My mail archive tells me that I have never received a response to abuse
reports sent to Mailgun. Pedantically, that's not quite true: I found
exactly one, from 2013, where I had also Cc:ed the hosting provider of the
spamvertised website. The hosting provider acknowledged the complaint,
meanwhile the usual tumbleweed from Mailgun. But that was a mere twelve
years ago, so maybe Mailgun just have a bit of a ticket backlog and will be
getting back to me about it any day now.

(I see that mailgun.com's MXer is mailgun-com.mail.protection.outlook.com,
so it seems likely that the abuse mailbox is being spamfiltered and that my
snark that it's an alias for /dev/null might not be too far from reality.)

[...]
> If you do not get a response from the abuse desk, shoot me a note with
> details attached and I can escalate internally.

Would such an escalation actually cause said insistent spammer to be kicked
off the service to the benefit of all Internet users, or merely add the
complainant to a list so that their address is excluded from future spam
runs?

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