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Postmaster oder nicht Postmaster (was: Re: WANTED: EMail-Adresse von DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen)

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From: Wilhelm Buehler
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 19:26
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In article <92105.091739UMV001@DBNMEB1.BITNET>, UMV001@DBNMEB1.BITNET
(Christa Keil) writes:
|>In article <IO01PDQ@math.fu-berlin.de>,
heiko@Harpo.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE (Heiko
|>Schlichting) says:
|>[...]
|>>Schon bei  postmaster@vm.op.dlr.de  versucht?
|>
|>Hmmmmmmmmmmm, das wuerd dann bedeuteten, das die VM zu einem
|>"richtigen Rechner" mutiert waere.
|>
|>Leider haben die meisten VM-Rechner so einen Account nicht :-(
|>(faengt schon damit an, das Postmaster nu mal mehr wie 8 Buch-
|> staben hat und mehr versteht der Grossschrott nu mal nicht )
|>
|>Fehlgeschlagene Mail und Files werden meist an die Accounts
|>"system" oder "maint" geleitet.

Huch!
Und mir hat man gesagt, 'Postmaster' geb es auf jedem Rechner im
Internet :-(
Schon wegen RFC 822, denn dort steht: 
|> ...
|> 6.3.  RESERVED ADDRESS
|>
|> It often is necessary to send mail to a site, without  know-
|> ing  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 "Postmaster@domain" is required to be valid.
|> ...
Etwas irritiert...
           Wilhelm
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From: wb@cs.uni-sb.de (Wilhelm Buehler)
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Subject: Postmaster oder nicht Postmaster (was: Re: WANTED: EMail-Adresse von DLR-Oberpfaffenhofen)
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