From: Rolf Lampa rolf.lampa@rilnet.com

550-Several RFCs state that you are required to have a postmaster 550-mailbox for each mail domain. This host does not accept mail 550-from domains whose servers reject the postmaster address.

I'd just like to point out that there are good reasons for someone to reject the postmaster address.

Just yesterday, I logged in and was greeted by over 4,000 rejected emails, all sent to postmaster@bytesmiths.com. One or more spammers had just started forging that as the "From:" address in their vile utterances, and now I was getting all their "backscatter" from spams that failed, for whatever reason, to be delivered. They were coming in faster than I could delete them. So I was forced to disable the postmaster address.

I am just a tiny one-person ISP, specializing in hosting for artists and non-profits. I don't have time to deal with this. So I'll leave it disabled for a week or so, then cautiously turn it back on.

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