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




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