Imail 6.1 does not have "abuse" accounts, so I don't see why the postmaster account can't be eliminated too.
Yeah, and IMail 6.1 had a cute option to let you reject bounce messages. Just because an option is there doesn't make it a valid option. :)
The RFC's were written before the scourge of SPAM was even a twinkle in those greencard
lawyers' eyes.
True, but it is very rare to hear of people complaining about the requirement for postmaster@ accounts. People are still getting added to the spam database at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org when they have no postmaster@ address. I've added many myself -- any time I need to get in contact with the owner of a domain and the postmaster@ and/or abuse@ accounts bounce, I add them.
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.
That's your decision to make. The RFCs do not require a human to read the bounce messages. :)
But be aware that there may be repercussions -- for example, if there is abuse coming from your domain (as has been the case with at least hundreds of IMail installations over the years), you may get a phone call from your ISP threatening to terminate your Internet access, that you never would have received if you had been reading the postmaster@ E-mail. If I need to contact a domain about an abuse complaint, I'll be polite and try all the appropriate addresses I can find (including E-mail addresses in WHOIS and SOA records). But if none of them respond, I contact the upstream (it's just SOP).
> 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.
I do agree that bouncing postmaster@ E-mail is a Bad Thing.
-Scott
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