Feedback Loop (email) - Reporting Process

Reporting Process

  1. Spencer sends a message to Alice.
  2. Alice complains to Isaac (her ISP) about the message, e.g. by hitting the report spam button.
  3. Isaac encapsulates the message as either an Abuse Reporting Format MIME part, or (less commonly) a standalone message/rfc822 MIME part, and sends it to Spencer if Spencer has signed up to receive that feedback. Otherwise, RFC 6650 provides for auto-subscribe just-in-time FBLs, started by sending an unsolicited abuse report that contains further directives (at a minimum, a way to unsubscribe).

In rare cases, these feedback loops may not be based on user reports. For example, they may be based on automated virus detection, or similar mechanisms.

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