Auto reporting procedure/rules

In general is the rules in MyMAIL for auto reporting is very strict to avoid false reporting.

The folowing done to see if generation of an report shall be done when MyMAIL has detecting a mail as spam.
  • To avoid looping is the subject/address is checked for abuse report reply.
  • Validation of every "Received:" tag in the header. by doing a lookup of the name and compare against the IP-number in the same entry.
  • Make sure that the "Received:" list is not broken by another tag.
  • All "Received:" tags after the firs invalid is treated as invalid.
  • If the "hit-rate" is below 90% in the header then no report is sent.
  • The ISP name is sent to "whois.abuse.net" for lookup of abuse reporting e-mail address. (done by a telnet session to whois.abuse.net on port 43).

Please note:
  1. The lookup of the header can take several seconds.
  2. If the whois.abuse.net is down it will give problems with timeouts.
  3. It is your responsibility when sending reports so be very carefull with the filter criteria.
© Erik Häll 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005

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