May 15, 2003

postmaster

n.

The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the network. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC-822) requires each machine to have a ‘postmaster’ address; usually it is aliased to this person.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:34 AM

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