2. Pseudo user

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It is often required to talk to someone in an organization without knowing his real name. We only want to talk to someone in charge of a service for example.

2.1 List of well known pseudo-users

The Internet has defined may pseudo-users. Here is a list of the one you should define on your system (on the mail-host server)

2.2 Aliases for administrative account

Linux system have several administrative accounts which received mail. It is a pain to manually log as one of those user just to check if there is any mail. This is a good idea to redirect those account to a real user (you ?).

Here is a list of those accounts

2.3 The admin pseudo-user

On small site, there is a single administrator for the complete network. Instead of setting all those aliases pointing to him, you may save some time and point all to the pseudo-user admin which is itself and alias pointing to the administrator.

This may save time.


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