>> The RFCs require the postmaster and abuse accounts...and not >> having them can penalize you when trying to deliver mail to >> other servers.
> What's the point of a postmaster account that is ignored by the average > administrator? I'm not about to read the thousands of emails that > arrive in this mailbox. The whole MBX file will be deleted anyhow > because its pointless weeding through thousands of emails. As I mentioned, the RFCs require it...and most spam filtering systems penalize those who do not obey the RFCs. So, neglect conforming to the established standard and using the postmaster and abuse accounts at your own risk. >> 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. > And the majority of these vacation messages will simply bounce back to > you because the majority of spam has faked/forged "reply to" addresses. > So these bounced messages come right back to the postmaster inbox, which > only makes the problem worse. Not the way I outlined it...but just because it works well for us doesn't mean it would fit your needs. I just offered it as a possible solution to your problem. > I discovered that the answer to my first question is to use the Registry > Editor and delete the "postmaster" alias from the > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Ipswitch\IMail\Domains\domain\Users\_aliases > hive. I wouldn't recommend it, but to each their own... > How about my second question? "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." Don't know...started with IMail on version 7. You might consider upgrading... To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
