POSTMASTER

This configuration variable is used for defining the space-delimited list of email addresses of the LISTSERV administrators. These are the people in charge of operating the LISTSERV service who are granted administrative privileges and notified of problems with the operation of the server.

Please note that addresses such as 'postmaster@somehost.com' or 'listserv-maintainer@somehost.com' cannot be defined as LISTSERV administrators because they will be trapped by the built-in loop-checking heuristics of LISTSERV. If it is desired to have a generic address listed as the POSTMASTER address (for instance, in the output of the RELEASE or HELP commands), L-Soft suggests using a user id such as 'lstmaint'.

The SHOW VERSION, RELEASE and HELP commands report the names and addresses of all the LISTSERV administrators, allowing users to determine where to report problems. However, you can insert a "Hide" keyword in the list, causing all the addresses that follow to be hidden from SHOW VERSION, RELEASE or HELP. Similarly, a "Quiet" keyword indicates that all the addresses that follow should be granted privileges but should not be notified of problems with the service.