Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:22:55PM -0700, Michael wrote: > You might be going too stringent in that case.. I don't think so. This would allow fred.amazon@ and things that meet those kinds of use cases, while disallowing amazon@ and amazon.com@. Note that I don't particularly like this -- years

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-27 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 7/26/17 5:54 PM, Peter Bowen wrote: Public certification authorities are allowed to use five mailbox names when verifying domain control for TLS/SSL certificate issuance. These are postmaster, hostmaster, webmaster, administrator, and admin. Meanwhile, new hire Robert Oot was assigned a

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-26 Thread Peter Bowen
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Kirk MacDonald wrote: > In addition to what is mentioned in RFC2142, can anyone offer any resources > (or "best practices") for what can be considered "restricted" email > addresses/UIDs for a domain which offers mailbox service

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-26 Thread Michael
You might be going too stringent in that case.. For instance, many people create aliases related to the service they are working with.. Also, a lot of people use 'throwaway' addresses related to the service.. I remember using 'ticketmaster@' once and surprised at how quickly 3rd party offers

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-26 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 04:59:39PM +, Kirk MacDonald wrote: > In addition to what is mentioned in RFC2142, can anyone offer any > resources (or "best practices") for what can be considered "restricted" > email addresses/UIDs for a domain which offers mailbox service to the > general public?

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-25 Thread Ken O'Driscoll
On common OS names, I have an ISP client who blocks Administrator@ (both in and out). They claim it reduces a whole load of problems with misconfigured Exchange / AD servers living on client LANs. Also make sure messages to abuse@ also feeds into your Abuse dept. as well as going to your client.

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-25 Thread Brandon Long via mailop
Other things to consider are support/sales/ads or anything that contains your brand. Guess this depends on whether this is a set of domains that anyone can sign up for an address on, or whether they own the domain. Gmail also restricted all usernames that it's employees used and all popular

Re: [mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-25 Thread Michael Peddemors
On 17-07-25 09:59 AM, Kirk MacDonald wrote: In addition to what is mentioned in RFC2142, can anyone offer any resources (or "best practices") for what can be considered "restricted" email addresses/UIDs for a domain which offers mailbox service to the general public? This would also be

[mailop] Restricted email address UIDs for public email domains

2017-07-25 Thread Kirk MacDonald
In addition to what is mentioned in RFC2142, can anyone offer any resources (or "best practices") for what can be considered "restricted" email addresses/UIDs for a domain which offers mailbox service to the general public? This would also be assuming the "restricted" email addresses are