[Mimedefang] Image blocking idea

[Paul Whittney]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 11:28:16PM +0100, Rob MacGregor wrote:
> Check the RFCs.  I'm pretty sure that at least abuse@ and postmaster@
> are required to be accepted.  Auto responders etc have resulted in
> (that I know of) at least one ISP finding themselves on the wrong end
> of a number of RBLs (as the result is to make it almost impossible to
> report spam/abuse).

Valid point, and I wonder if I worded my email wrong. Regardless of the
RFCs, I think some emails need to exist, and actually go somewhere,
otherwise RBLs will take a stand. What I'm saying, is that email
with attachments to these special addresses should have something
done to them.

Thinking about it, I don't know what. I do see that blocking at the end 
of DATA could cause a RBL backlash.

Pity there isn't a "WARNING: Message accepted, but forced into plain text"
that would get to the user (bouncing this to the From address seems a 
bad idea).

Perhaps attachments to these addresses get tagged with a header:
POSTMASTER-SPAM?
and we leave the decision to the email user, or their email rules?

Thanks Rob, for highlighting the problem here. Shows I need to think
about it some more.

-Paul

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