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Sounds similar to the problems test.com endures. http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm
by city41 10y ago
Sounds similar to the problems test.com endures.
http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm
- Xylakant 10y agoIt's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.
- IshKebab 10y agoSurely example.com has these problems too, although to be fair they don't really need to receive any email.
- js2 10y agoexample.com does not receive e-mail. It is specifically set aside (along with example.{net,org} and a few TLDs) for testing: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoexample.com has an empty MX record, so you can't really send email to it anyway.
- teddyh 10y ago“Empty”? It does not have an MX record.
- 0xcde4c3db 10y agoYou're right; I must have misread the dig output. I thought it showed an MX record with no hostname, but that was probably the question section.
- 0x0 10y agoI believe SMTP attempts delivery to the A record if there is no MX record.
- Xylakant 10y agoIndeed, if no MX record is known, but an A record is, mail will be sent to that host. However, example.(com,org) are designated testing domains by RFC and any self-respecting mail server should know not to forward mails there. And on top of that, since the domains are designated testing domains, they do not accept mails.
- hollander 10y agoI thought the TLD test was meant for this, like mydomain.test.
- Xylakant 10y agoThe relevant RFC lists a couple of options. .test as TLD is valid as well
- corecoder 10y agoA friend and ex co-worker of mine, at our first job, had to write some code to send emails. Not knowing any better, he ran his manual tests using a clearly non existent email address, just a combination of letters. Or, so he thought: he soon received an email from said combination of letters, begging him to please stop spamming.
- jdalbert 10y agoAccording to RFC 2606: > ".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples. Using example.[com|org] for testing feels like shoehorning. I wish IANA had reserved test.com, because that's what feels right when testing.
- Xylakant 10y agoIf you prefer .test then by all means do so. The whole TLD is restricted for that use. Some TLD also have dedicated test domains, any of those is perfectly fine - test.com (or test.de) for that matter is not.
- ecthiender 10y ago.test TLD is reserved for this kind of testing situations.
- C4K3 10y agoInteresting they don't seem to have SPF/DMARC configured properly. That would probably get rid of most spam, at least at major providers. After setting up a DMARC reporting address for my own domain I was surprised at the amount of emails supposedly from my addresses that are getting rejected, mostly by gmail and yahoo.