OT: required email addresses

Joel Jaeggli joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu
Wed Apr 26 16:14:44 UTC 2006


On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Steven J Lamb wrote:

> I realize this is probably a dumb question,
>
> I manage several domains somewhere on the order of 50. and I realized
> that I am getting bounces for address that do not exist on my domain.
> Email addresses like Postmaster@ or Abuse@ or NOC@ and I was wondering
> what addresses are assumed to exist on my domains and which ones are
> required. I have done some research and determined that there is some
> documentation out there that determines what is required, something like
> an RFC document. But I didn't Know exactly where to look.

Take a look at rfc2142 since that's the source of most expecations...

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt

The sort of negative equivalent (what people do when they decide you don't 
meet their expectations) is defined here:

http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/policy.php

> Any suggestions welcomed
>
> Thanks
>
> Steven Lamb
>
>

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