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Old 26 Jun 2018, 02:23 PM   #1
markwolk
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postmaster and abuse addresses

Are postmaster@ and abuse@ addresses compulsory with vanity domains?

All what I could find about it is this: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt dating back from 1997!

I routinely create and maintain these addresses with all my vanity domains. But, reading the IETF text, it would seem that postmaster@ and abuse@ addresses are needed only for domains that send mail via SMTP. Since I never send any mail from my vanity domains, and their SPF record is
Code:
v=spf1 -all
I think I have been wasting my time?

By "vanity domain" I mean a domain that does not actually have a website; it's usually a misspelling. The vanity domain has a 301 redirect to the correct domain.
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