Both postmaster and mailer-daemon seem to have some amount of historical precedent.
On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909012256.paa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > : If we do this, I hope a more obvious name is chosen; something like > : "mailman" might be a start. Or "mailperson", or "postperson", or > : whatever. "mta" just feels a little obscure. > > postmanpete > > which is both obscure and descriptive. Sadly it may be sexist as > well... > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Robert N M Watson rob...@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
