When Gmail/Yahoo/etc. flag a complaint, they send an ARF report to a mailbox you register. You must suppress that recipient immediately or your sender reputation craters.
Architecture:
- Register FBL with each provider:
- Microsoft: SNDS portal → JMRP enrollment.
- Yahoo: requires DKIM, register at sender.yahooinc.com.
- Gmail: no traditional FBL — use Postmaster Tools complaints metric.
- Point the abuse mailbox at a parser (your own, or KumoMTA's built-in ARF parser).
- Pipe parsed complaints into your suppression list.
KumoMTA's ARF helper:
local arf = require 'policy-extras.arf'
kumo.on('smtp_server_message_received', function(msg)
if msg:recipient():user() == 'abuse' then
local report = arf.parse(msg)
if report then suppress(report.original_recipient) end
-- Don't deliver — it was just a report
msg:set_disposition('drop')
end
end)
🎯 Complaint rate over 0.3% triggers Gmail filtering. Over 0.5% gets you blocklisted. Treat FBL processing as a Sev-1 path.
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