abuse said:

> One of the things that has always bothered me about Outlook Express and
> Outlook is that they are susceptable to webbugs.

It is generally (in my experience) considered bad form to post to
mailing lists as postmaster. Mail FROM "postmaster" is generally a
report of some mail delivery problem, and is often filtered into mail
folders specifically for the purpose of identifying problems with the
mail system by system administrators and/or mail administrators --
i.e. the type of people most likely to be subscribed to this list.
Often these messages will be considered of high priority, as they may
be an indication of a problem.

The intended purpose of the postmaster account is for outside parties
to be able to be certain they can send mail TO postmaster, in order to
contact someone who is guaranteed to be a real person at a given site,
primarily with regard to e-mail. According to RFC 822:

    "It often is necessary to send mail to a site, without knowing
    any of its valid addresses. For example, there may be mail system
    dysfunctions, or a user may wish to find out a person's correct
    address, at that site.

    "This standard specifies a single, reserved mailbox address
    (local-part) which is to be valid at each site. Mail sent to
    that address is to be routed to a person responsible for the
    site's mail system or to a person with responsibility for general
    site operation. The name of the reserved local-part address is:

                               Postmaster

    so that "Postmasterdomain" is required to be valid."

It is generally considered proper and preferable for the manager of
the mail system to have their own personal e-mail address,
e.g. geogetinfo.org, and then have postmaster "routed" to them via
mail alias or similar mechanism.

I would appreciate it if you would not post as postmaster in the
future.

My sincere thanks

--
Derek Martin
Senior System Administrator
Mission Critical Linux
martinMissionCriticalLinux.com
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