Postmaster 'best practices' query

Tue Oct 23 19:06:04 UTC 2001

Yo David!

The answer is "b".

Check out RFC 2142 "MAILBOX NAMES FOR COMMON SERVICES, ROLES AND FUNCTIONS".

"If a host is not configured to accept mail directly, but it implements
a service for which this specification defines a mailbox name, that host
must have an MX RR set (see [RFC974]) and the mail exchangers specified
by this RR set must recognize the referenced host's domain name as
"local" for the purpose of accepting mail bound for the defined mailbox
name.  Note that this is true even if the advertised domain name is not
the same as the host's domain name; for example, if an NNTP server's
host name is DATA.RAMONA.VIX.COM yet it advertises the domain name
VIX.COM in its "Path:" headers, then mail must be deliverable to both
<USENET at VIX.COM> and <USENET at DATA.RAMONA.VIX.COM>, even though these
addresses might be delivered to different final destinations."

RGDS
GARY
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On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, David Howe wrote:

> > Some country-TLD registrars do have this requirement, however.
> hmm. related question here then - webmaster@ addresses?
> assuming www.xxx.com and www.subsite.xxx.com, is it required / best practice
> to support
> a) just webmaster at xxx.com
> b) webmaster@ for each subsite
> c) some appropriate email address (referenced on the site) not in the same
> domain (if website domain != email domain)