Required email addresses for Internet conneted systems

[dwerthmu]

There are a few required addresses for Internet connected systems
Postmaster, abuse - then also hostmaster for DNS, webmaster for the web,security for security matters.


I don't see these aliases there by default? The version 9.2 of the admin guide has some instructions for creating these addresses.

I did a search through the 11.x docs and there is no mention of postmaster or abuse.
Am I missing something?

How would I go about creating these aliases and route/forward them to real users responsible for these tasks?

Thanks

[kanderson]

The easiest way is to edit the file /etc/aliases and correct it so that those aliases are pointing at a valid user on your server. After the changes are made, restart sendmail with "/etc/init.d/sendmail restart"

You could, however, just add the "postmaster" (for example) as an alias for a particular user.

Either would work fine.

Kev.

[dwerthmu]

thanks that works

they are there in the default aliases file but need to be routed to a real user. Guess a out of the box default would be to the sxadmin user?

we'll route them to a real user.

[adhodgson]

Hi,

By default they go to root, which is probably going to a .mbox on most systems. I change the root user to a DL for the network team in /etc/aliases, then we get everything to abuse, security, hostmaster etc. Postmaster is a special case - it goes to the sxadmin user by default - in our case however, we named sxadmin as postmaster, for compatability reasons. Omconfenu will deal with this configuration. I leave this as a separate mailbox, because it gets quite a few messages because users mistype addresses etc, and it allerts me to loops etc.

Thanks.
Andrew.