[43652] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Mon Oct 22 11:18:43 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: wb8foz@nrk.com, nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 11:18:18 -0400
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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
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
