RFC 2142

[Stephan Buys]

Good idea. I have created an issue so that we dont lose track of this:
https://intevation.de/roundup/kolab/issue384


On Thursday 09 September 2004 12:22, Luca Villani wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I'm playing with a zfos kolab installation on a Fedora Core2, version 
> 1.0-1.0.20-cf1.0.4
> 
> In this installation there is only partial support for RFC 2142 "Mailbox Names 
> for Common Services, Roles and Functions"
> 
>  http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt
> 
> Specifically, standard installed /kolab/etc/postfix/aliases only cover
> 
>  postmaster
>  hostmaster
> 
> redirecting them to root.
> Pheraps, root is redirected to /dev/null...
> 
> The side effect of this configuration is an e-mail bounc for all the RFC 2142 
> mailbox names except postmaster and hostmaster, but e-mail sent to this two 
> roles simply are not delivered to anyone but are wasted.
> 
> As long as this RFC cover some very important common roles as postmaster, 
> hotmaster, abuse, etc., I suggest to change root redirection to some 
> intelligent carbon based life form [;-)] and to add redirection to root for 
> all RFC 2142 common roles.
> 
> A resulting correct aliases file look like this:
> 
> 
>  [...]
> 	##   standard mail persons
> 	#hostmaster:            root
> 	#postmaster:            root
> 
> 	##   save unprivileged user storage of careless admins
> 	#root:                  /dev/null
> 	root:			jdoe at acme.com
> 
> 	#
> 	# RFC2142 common roles
> 	#
> 	info:			root
> 	sales:			root
> 	marketing:		root
> 	support:		root
> 	postmaster:		root
> 	hostmaster:		root
> 	abuse:			root
> 	noc:			root
> 	security:		root
> 	#usenet:		root
> 	#news:			root
> 	webmaster:		root
> 	www:			root
> 	#uucp:			root
> 	ftp:			root
> 
> 

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