Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query

[Ryan O'Connell <ryan () complicity co uk>]

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:33:56AM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> Every site should accept/respond to "postmaster" -- T/F?
>
> Or is it "Every site running mail"....
> Or every box running mail?
>
> IOW: Which of the following are required vice recommended vice
> best practives, etc.
>
> a)    postmaster () example com
> b)    postmaster () mail example com
> c)    postmaster () wizzbang example com
> d)    postmaster () pop example com
> e)    postmaster () cisco example com
>
> and most important to me: where to I go to justify the
> decisions on same?

RFC823 section 6.3, postmaster@ must be valid for all domains accepting mail.
Something I've had to quote a lot.

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