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Postmaster 'best practices' query

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Mon Oct 22 10:41:11 2001

From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 10:33:56 -0400 (EDT)
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A query to help educate me. Feel free to flame away;
the week is young.

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?






-- 
A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@nrk.com
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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