RFC 2142 Proposed Standard Anti-abuse and operations

Mailbox Names for Common Services, Roles and Functions

This specification enumerates and describes Internet mail addresses (mailbox name @ host reference) to be used when contacting personnel at an organization. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

Status
Proposed Standard. On the standards track and stable enough to implement against. Most of the email stack stays at this level permanently.
Published
May 1997
Authors
D. Crocker
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Normative requirements

Every sentence in this RFC carrying an RFC 2119 keyword, with the section it came from. 2 must, 0 should, 0 may.

6 MAILING LIST ADMINISTRATION MAILBOX

  • MUSTthere MUST be the administrative mailbox name:
  • REQUIREDLIST-SPECIFIC (-REQUEST) MAILBOX NAMES ARE REQUIRED, INDEPENDENT OF THE AVAILABILITY OF GENERIC LIST SOFTWARE MAILBOX NAMES.

Every current email RFC