> -----Original Message----- > The RFCs require the postmaster and abuse accounts...and not > having them can penalize you when trying to deliver mail to > other servers.
Imail 6.1 does not have "abuse" accounts, so I don't see why the postmaster account can't be eliminated too. The RFC's were written before the scourge of SPAM was even a twinkle in those greencard lawyers' eyes. What's the point of a postmaster account that is ignored by the average administrator? I'm not about to read the thousands of emails that arrive in this mailbox. The whole MBX file will be deleted anyhow because its pointless weeding through thousands of emails. > What we've done is to put a vacation message on the > postmaster accounts telling of a separate address to use to > contact the postmaster for the domain. And the majority of these vacation messages will simply bounce back to you because the majority of spam has faked/forged "reply to" addresses. So these bounced messages come right back to the postmaster inbox, which only makes the problem worse. > That along with a good spam/virus filtering solution is one > way to resolve the issue that works well for us. I discovered that the answer to my first question is to use the Registry Editor and delete the "postmaster" alias from the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Domains\domain\Users\_aliases hive. How about my second question? "what is the purpose of the little square check box next to each of the user and alias names within a mail account? By default, there are no check marks in these boxes, but that doesn't stop incoming email from arriving to those aliases/names." Thanks. Phil 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/
