Re: [webmin-l] Email Question

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 21/Nov/2006 10:13 Kris Deugau wrote ..
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> > Currently, it creates aliases for those addresses pointing to the
> > domain owner, which is the RFC-specified correct thing to do. But you
> > can change this in the server template if you like ..
> 
> Mmmh.  Which addresses to you alias like this?  The only two I can thing
> of offhand that MUST receive mail according to any of the mail RFCs (and
> really shouldn't be directed to /dev/null <g>) are postmaster@ and abuse@.
> 
> root@ isn't referred to anywhere in the mail RFCs that I know of, 
> although in the past it would be reasonable to be able to reach a 
> sysadmin at such an address.  (Along with about 20 other semistandard 
> UNIX aliases;  none of which are listed anywhere in any mail RFC I can
> recall.)  Quite a few aren't even really relevant to Internet services;
>   they're intended to be aliases for LAN sysadmins.

My mistake, you are correct .. the default aliases are only for postmaster,
abuse, webmaster and hostmaster. It would be OK from an RFC point of view
to alias root@yourdomain to /dev/null. 

 - Jamie