On Thursday, September 2, 2004, 3:45:54 PM, Matthew wrote: MHoS> for starters, at account creation time, I create a generic admin account, as MHoS> well as postmaster and abuse aliases and point them to the generic admin MHoS> account. I inform my clients that these are "free" user accounts (do not MHoS> count towards their available account total), and are required to exist. MHoS> Then every so often I scan the system to ensure that they do indeed exist. MHoS> If they don't I warn them of the consequences and re-add them. At this time MHoS> I let my users manage said accounts, but am seriously thinking about MHoS> changing that policy and having them all routed to a central mbx for daily MHoS> monitoring.
MHoS> To the best of my knowledge, postmaster and abuse are the only two required MHoS> accounts. On our systems we have a policy that these are aliases which point to a central role account. We only redirect those accounts to a customer admin if they request it and we think they can handle it. Nobody so far has ever requested it. Our hosting ops are small - ymmv. _M To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
