Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

It's been pointed out to me that RFC 2821 requires that all hosts 
running SMTP servers accept "postmaster".  In fact, 2142 (which I had 
cited) has the same requirement, in some text that I overlooked.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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