I would never even try to use a generic address like "webmaster", "sales" or "info" these days. That is practically just asking for spam, and none of those addresses are required in RFCs.
You do need to have a functional postmaster or root account to be RFC compliant though. Personally, I filter all mail going to my postmaster account. There is nothing in the RFCs that prohibit it, and I don't have time to sift through a thousand spams each day. Insofar as people not being able to reach me if they are blacklisted, I don't really consider that my problem. If they are on a blacklist (RBL), they need to solve the problem that is getting them put on the blacklist in the first place. If there is any dire need to reach me about an e-mail issue, someone can always look up our phone or fax number in the whois database. That's what it's there for. That is what I have always done when I had an issue with a fowled-up ISP that was rejecting our mail based upon some flawed internal mail policy. William Van Hefner Network Administrator Vantek Communications, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Demske > Sent: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 7:48 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam to Root/Postmaster > > > > - Forward postmaster and root mail for all domains to my "master" > > postmaster account? [That's gonna be a LOT of junk mail for me to > > personally wade through. We're talkin' tens of thousands > of messages > > per day.] > > I don't know about root but postmaster is a 'Role Account" > (check out http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2142.html). > Personally I have abuse and postmaster for ALL domains we > host come to me (unfiltered, in case the user is blacklisted > or can not get through to our users for some reason). It's > 100% crap right now but I like to know that if somebody needs > to get through, they can. We only get 100-150 messages a day > though, I'm curious what others think since the effort > involved is huge in your case but to be rfc-compliant (as I > read it anyhow) you _must_ accept at least postmaster. Cheers, Bruce > > > 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/ > > 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/
