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Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query

  • From: Steven M. Bellovin
  • Date: Mon Oct 22 11:20:48 2001 
It's been pointed out to me that RFC 2821 requires that all hosts 
running SMTP servers accept "postmaster".  In fact, 2142 (which I had 
cited) has the same requirement, in some text that I overlooked.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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