[43650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan O'Connell)
Mon Oct 22 10:53:49 2001
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 15:52:22 +0100
From: Ryan O'Connell <ryan@complicity.co.uk>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Message-ID: <20011022155222.A24550@look-to-windward.complicity.co.uk>
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In-Reply-To: <200110221433.KAA27123@sigma.nrk.com>; from wb8foz@nrk.com on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:33:56AM -0400
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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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Ryan O'Connell - CCIE #8174
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