Administering Your Mail Configuration
The following sections describe how to keep mail services running smoothly.
Duties of Postmaster
As postmaster, your responsibilities for administering mail include the following tasks.
Check the mail queues to make sure that mail is flowing in and out.
Check any down systems where mail is backing up. If the system is not needed, delete it from the mail system or bring it up to keep mail moving.
Fix personal aliases, as requested.
Administer the Aliases databases as people move in and out of the domain.
Set up temporary forwarding files.
Contact owners of mailing lists and help them fix mailing list problems.
Go through postmaster mail daily and look for problems, broken .forward files, and mail alias loops. Fix ...
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