On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon@sasami.anime.net> wrote:
not so much malice as gross incompetence. running spamfilters on your abuse@ mailbox, really? that is, for those which actually have an abuse mailbox that doesn't bounce outright.
Sorry about that, many networks do perform standard filtering on messages to Abuse contacts based on DNS RBLs, SPF/DMARC policy enforcement, virus scans, etc, and do send a SMTP Reject on detected spam or malware. If your own mail server's IP appears on Spamhaus, then, Yes, you should expect any abuse reports you attempt to submit have a likelihood of being rejected as spam. Abuse/contact mailboxes are not special in this regard, and it would not be a good practice to leave unprotected. If anything.....: For many networks; files sent to abuse mailboxes are likely aliased to the normal mailbox of sysadmins who have access to high privileges. As such, these mailboxes may require even stronger protection than other accounts, because of increased risk (when a mistake is made). There is a reason that phone numbers, and not just e-mail addresses are listed in the WHOIS records...... If you get a SMTP reject, then call the the Abuse POC of the organization you need to report abuse from.....
-Dan -- -JH