Danny,

> No, root@localhost is a reasonable default email address, it is a real
> email
> address, it refers to a real account on a real machine.
> That AOL, and many others apache included, won't accept mail from
> unreturnable addresses is neither here nor there.

I very much disagree with this point.

The use of localhost within the default configuration shows a bias that
is not reflected in most real world use of email.  "localhost" is not
addressable.  There are no MX records that resolve to "localhost".  It
is only a viable postmaster email if one assumes that the sender is on
the same SMTP server as the postmaster.  In general situations this will
not be the case.  However, if I have an addressable, resolvable domain
for the email then it will work in the general case (different SMTP
server from the postmaster) and in the local case (same SMTP server as
the postmaster).

--Peter





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