On 21.02.2008 14:16 CE(S)T, Nigel Metheringham wrote: > On 21 Feb 2008, at 12:53, Renaud Allard wrote: >> Yves Goergen wrote: >>> On 21.02.2008 13:16 CE(S)T, Graeme Fowler wrote: >>>> ...noting that you should *always* accept [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> (it's an RFC mandate). >>> I don't know anybody who really cares about that RFC postmaster >>> account. >>> Neither me nor my clients need it, so we're not going to open that >>> standardised spam hatch. If somebody wants to contact the holder of >>> the >>> domain, they can look up a valid contact address in the domain >>> registry >>> or simply visit the web site and read the imprint (which is, as >>> opposed >>> to the RFC, enforced by national law). >>> >> Well, just have a look at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy-postmaster.php >> If you are listed there, you may get some spamassassin points. > > Oh he is on there - I reporting him myself a few minutes back having > tested it. Should be confirmed in a day or so.
Thank you very much, Nigel. Should I now hate you for that? Well, should be no problem to get off it again. Anyway, the entire rfc-ignorant site seems a bit broken, since *.de is on the whois list... What is a service worth that "blocks out" *all* German domains?! And who knows what else. I'm now going to score all RFC_* rules to 0 in my spam filter. A brief check showed that while it catches much spam, that spam would easily be catched by other rules, too. On the other side, it may really produce a ton of false positives. IMO the rfc-ignorant list is not suitable for use in a spam filter system in any way. At least for the postmaster, abuse and whois parts. So as you were so kind to squal on me, do you have any solid reasons why today (in the year 2008) anybody would need a postmaster mailbox? I guess you have never used a postmaster address in your life nor looked into the log files of a mail server close enough. If you had, you'd see that the *only* purpose of a postmaster address in the real world is to accept spam. At least, I have never had the need for a postmaster mailbox myself, nor do I know anybody who does. Should you have any problem with one of the domains I'm hosting, and then you're too lazy to look into the whois to find the provider and then use the contact web form or write an e-mail to the address written in that page's imprint, there's no more I can do for you. -- Yves Goergen "LonelyPixel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Visit my web laboratory at http://beta.unclassified.de -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
