Re: Postmaster and Abuse

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 8/27/2013 1:25 AM, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:16:10AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> It's often considered bad form to put mail aliases such as these in
>> /etc/aliases which is traditionally used to manipulate UNIX system
>> account mail routing.  It's better to put them in /etc/postfix/virtual.
> 
> The docs in the postfix-doc package don't seem to mention this. In
> /usr/share/doc/postfix-doc/html/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html it
> says: "You
> should set up a
> postmaster alias in the aliases(5) table that
>    directs mail to a human person. The postmaster address is required
>    to
>    exist, so that people can report mail delivery problems. While
>    you're
>    updating the aliases(5) table, be sure to direct mail for the
>    super-user to a human person too."

I was speaking more to the "abuse@" role account.  I should have made
that more clear.

-- 
Stan