[LINK] Bloody uow.edu.au don't comply with email RFCs

[matthew at sorbs.net]

From: Eric Scheid <eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [LINK] Bloody uow.edu.au don't comply with email RFCs
> On 11/10/07 8:18 AM, "Howard Lowndes" <lannet at lannet.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > Their Exim mail server is sending out non-delivery notifications 
> to spam
> > messages and when I sent an email addressed to 
> postmaster at uow.edu.au it
> > bounced, saying that there was no account as root at uow.edu.au.
> > 
> > It's a requirement of the RFC that they have a postmaster account...
> > Need I say more?
> 
> isn't it a requirement of some RFC to send out non-delivery 
> notificationstoo?

There are also a number of doco's (RFC/BCP in draft as well IIRC) that
say you shouldn't send NDRs for Spam or Viruses.

All that said the OP might want to contact their IT dept:

Information Technology Services
University of Wollongong
Northfields Avenue
North Wollongong NSW 2522
Telephone: (61 2) 4221 3775
Facsimile: (61 2) 4229 1985
Email: its at uow.edu.au

Regards,

Mat