Generic, reserved or well known email adresses for common services, roles and functions 📨

genericEmails.md

I recommend using a distribution list instead of an alias to ensure that you don't have a single point of failure 🤷

Aliases allow you to have multiple email addresses that point to a single mailbox. A distribution list sends to multiple email addresses when you email a single email address.

The usual suspects are identified in the following documents: RFC 822 & RFC 2142.

Implementation gotchas:

• GMail: Reserved aliases for spam and abuse policy in Gmail and Google Workspace
• Azure Active Directory: Highly privileged email aliases that can only be created by an Azure AD global administrator

Essential

• Abuse@ / Abus@ (french)
• Admin@ and Administrator@
• Hostmaster@
• Postmaster@
• Security@
• SSL-Admin@
• Privacy@
• Webmaster@

Nice to have

• Help@
• HR@, RH@ (french), Careers@, or Jobs@
• Info@, Inquiries@, or Contact@
• Legal
• Sales@, Order@, or Billing@
• Support@

List of no-reply email addresses

• noReply@
• no_reply@
• no.reply@
• doNotReply@
• do-not-reply@

Outdated

• Contact@
• Default@
• Editor@
• Editorial@
• Email@
• Events@
• Feedback@
• Mail@
• Media@
• News@
• Newsletter@
• Noc@
• Office@
• Ops@
• Pr@
• Press@
• Pressrelease@
• Root@
• Secure@
• Service@
• Usenet@