Re: [IMail Forum] How to disable/remove postmaster account

[Darin Cox]

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The RFCs require the postmaster and abuse accounts...and not having them can penalize you when trying to deliver mail to other servers.   What we've done is to put a vacation message on the postmaster accounts telling of a separate address to use to contact the postmaster for the domain.  If it's spam the vacation message is undeliverable, but if it's real then the sender can forward to the new address.   That along with a good spam/virus filtering solution is one way to resolve the issue that works well for us. Darin.     ----- Original Message ----- From: Hostsafe Hotmail To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 8:36 PM Subject: [IMail Forum] How to disable/remove postmaster account Is there any way to delete/disable the "postmaster" account that appears in every new Imail mail account?  Too many spammers send emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] assuming that it's a pretty safe bet that a "postmaster" account exists at each registered domain name.  Recently I was doing some spring cleaning, and found thousands of spam in these Imail postmaster accounts.  I can find no way to disable these mandatory accounts.   I am using Imail version 6.1   The second question that I have is, what is the purpose of the little square check box next to each of the user and alias names within a mail account?  By default, there are no check marks in these boxes, but that doesn't stop incoming email from arriving to those aliases/names.   Thanks.   Philip