--On 2 February 2010 18:08:38 +0530 ram <ram(_at_)netcore(_dot_)co(_dot_)in>
wrote:
We provide smtp relay services to our clients and we also spam scan our
going partially. Yet sometimes some weak password account at the clients
end gets compromised and we end up relay quiet a few spams before they
are reported ( on FBL's ) and stopped.
I plan to add a header to all the outgoing mails from our servers
X-abuse-report-to: abuse@<mydomain>
Is this the standard header for receiving abuse reports. If there really
exists a "standard" header
There isn't a standard header, and if you're reporting junk mail, why would
you trust any header in the message? How do you know that the server even
supports the mechanism?
There would have to be -at the least- a way that the server could tell the
client "It's ok to trust the Report-abuse-to header". That might be through
an extension to the POP3/IMAP protocols, or it might be through the
recipient domain DNS.
And, it should be called report-abuse-to, not abuse-report-to.
--
Ian Eiloart
IT Services, University of Sussex
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