Re: [Astlinux-users] Asterisk 1.4 Challenges for AstLinux

[Darrick H. <dha...@dj...>]

Lonnie Abelbeck wrote:
>>   As far as the lists.sf.net question, I'm afraid that I don't quite
>> understand what you mean...
>>     
> To reduce spam guessing, my mail domains reject all mail not exactly  
> addressed to known users.  The sourceforge lists require a posting  
> email to have a 'postmaster' user in the same domain (or sub-domain)  
> as the sender.  (There are RFC's that say a 'postmaster' user should  
> be defined, but I have never quite understood why.)
>
> After defining a 'postmaster' user in my mail system, I was able to  
> post to this new list
>
> I am just curious the logic of requiring the 'postmaster' and not  
> creating a spam email channel.
>
>   
Lonnie,

I believe this is either strongly suggested or a requirement to be able 
to address abusive people on your domain.  Generally the postmaster 
account is an alias to an actual user.  Other strongly suggested aliases 
are webmaster and abuse.

Darrick

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