: Are webmaster accounts required for non-email domains? I see that best-practice for domains using email should have a webmaster account (and the other normal accounts), but what if you don't have

@Odierno851

As specified by the Internet Engineering Task Force(IETF) Request For Comments(RFC) #2142 , the proposed standards are specified.
Link here: [https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2142.txt]

If your domain uses DNS, HTTP and SMTP, then you should implement HOSTMASTER, POSTMASTER and WEBMASTER, as recommended by the RFC proposed standard.

If your server has SMTP, and your domains are hosted their, you should have POSTMASTER@domain for each domain name on that server.

RFC2142 is a proposed standard, not a legacy standard as Brayn C. suggests.

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@Marchetta884

No. You do not need at webmaster@ e-mail account. The ONLY e-mail address you need to have related to any domain is a contact e-mail address, and it can be completely different than the domain that is registered.

postmaster@, webmaster@, administrator@, info@, etc... ... these are all legacy standards that were there as a uniform, convenient method to reach out to a server administrator when you had no idea of how to reach them pre-web and generally do nothing these days but collect spam.

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@Smith883

The webmaster@ convention is simply a device where people might be contactable through a generic email address. It has nothing to do with using or not using email on a domain. My experience is that it was more widely used a few years ago than these days because it was thought to be a method to contact domain owners.

I the past I would set up webmaster@, postmaster@ and info@ for every domain, even if I didn't use the address. Over time I realised that in fact they never receive email and if they do it is spam, so I have stopped doing it.

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