Postmaster 'best practices' query

Mon Oct 22 14:52:22 UTC 2001

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 at example.com
> b)	postmaster at mail.example.com
> c)	postmaster at wizzbang.example.com
> d)	postmaster at pop.example.com
> e)	postmaster at 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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