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Re: Postmaster 'best practices' query

  • From: Peter van Dijk
  • Date: Mon Oct 22 14:03:30 2001 
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:02:09PM -0500, Brett Frankenberger wrote:
[snip]
> RFC2821 would be a good place to go to justify decisions on same. 
> (Well, to justify a decision to implement
> [email protected], and to implement
> "postmaster".    It wouldn't really help you justify a decision to not
> implement that.  OTOH, if someone is arguing that the the mere
> existance of xyz.com implies that [email protected] must exist, then I
> would note that neither RFC2821 nor any other RFC of which I am aware
> imposes such a requirement.  As long as @xyz.com isn't being used for
> any mail, there is no requirement for [email protected] to exist.)

Some country-TLD registrars do have this requirement, however.

Greetz, Peter
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