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Re: [Asrg] Re: SPF abused by spammers

2004-10-08 09:42:27
[I]f the generators of notifications always used a standard format
(which should be processed by the UA in attempt to correlate the
notification with a sent message [...]), then [...]

<grumble>
But the reality is that every email processing vendor seems to invent
their own format for bounces, which means that automatic processing
is not possible.

There's RFC 3462, defining multipart/report, and every time I get a
bounce for a message I didn't send which isn't multipart/report, I send
a reply asking them to please generate multipart/report bounces so they
can be mechanically recognized as bounces and processed accordingly.
(Bounces for messages I didn't send which _are_ multipart/report
generally get refused automatically.)

Repeat offenders get blocked, though only a few sites have made it to
that point so far.

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