Hi Firstly, please keep the bitching off the list, gentlemen. Take it somewhere else.
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 17:13 +0100, Yves Goergen wrote: > So as you were so kind to squal on me, do you have any solid reasons why > today (in the year 2008) anybody would need a postmaster mailbox? Because "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" is the RFC mandated method of contacting a given domain to deal with email problems. If you, someone else running hundreds/thousands/millions of domains, everyone and their dog starts to keep their own methods of contact, we've gone to Hell in a handcart [1]. In theory, the mailbox on the end of it should not be filtered, although as you mention this is getting to be an insensible concept these days. However, most well-run email domains still use postmaster as their primary contact for email problems, abuse as their abuse contact, and so on, and so forth. It's known as Best Current Practice. If it doesn't work for you, then feel free to drop the practice but make careful personal note that you are dropping basic interoperability practices with other domains. That's why we have RFCs - they stop everyone making their own rules. Graeme [1] OK, so Comcast, Virgin, BT, yadda yadda yadda are apparently exempt... -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
