Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
The advise I've seen (iirc it was in rfc-ignorant lists) was not to allow
send the mail to abuse and non-abuse mailboxes together, e.g. when it's sent
to abuse mailbox, reject rcpt to:non-abuse mailboxes with temporary error
and vice versa. The result should be, once the mail will be sent to all
non-abuse mailboxes, once to abuse mailboxes, and they can be filtered with
different rules.
If only it were that easy.
The issue is that a lot of sites are ignorant and haven't filled out all
of their ICANN required fields in their ARIN (or RIPE or APNIC or LACNIC
or AFRNIC) registrations.... So there might be a OrgTech contact as
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]".... who you Bcc: on the message, but you guess that
there's also an "abuse" mailbox, and they just forgot to register it.
However, you don't want to mail to the abuse mailbox to see if it gets
delivered, and then if it bounced, mail to the OrgTech mailbox
instead... because that's too much wasted time... So you To: the abuse
mailbox on the odd chance that it exists, and you Bcc: the "noc" mailbox
(or the "hostmaster" or whatever) as a fallback address.
-Philip
