One of the strange things about system administration as compared todevelopment is the general lack of testing that sysadmins do. I believethat one reason for this is that sysadmins have a hard time testingchanges, especially on a budget.

Now, I will admit that I have a biased viewpoint on this; I work in arelatively complex environment (although one that's fairly small by thestandards of large systems). As is common in multi-machine environments,we effectively have hierarchies of machines and systems, with

I like following RFCs, by and large, and I like being a good Internetneighbour, and I have been behind one or another postmaster@ addressfor a very long time. But I have to face reality and admit something;regardless of what the RFCs say, the postmaster address is dead andhas been for years, and basically no one would notice if we quietlyturned off ours.

It would be one thing if postmaster addresses didn't get any email atall, but of course this isn't