On 13 Jul 2005 at 0:44, Simon Troup wrote: > > Why do you have a catchall? If you didn't, then email to nonvalid > > addresses would be rejected by your domain's mail server, and you'd > > never have to see it. > > I set up catchall and then signup to (for example) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - if the email becomes a problem I > can block it specifically at server level and not even have to collect > it - I also know who's been distributing addresses. > > As I'm a music engraver professinally - I prefer to use my actual > email address on this list, which is why I'd rather it wasn't used > elsewhere.
Oh, I understand perfectly well why a catchall is attractive. But in the age of spam, it means all the spam sent to non-valid email addresses gets sent to the account defined as the catchall target. Perhaps you have server-side spam filtering, but that's never 100% effective, so having a catchall increases the amount of spam you receive. Likewise, you're training the spammers to continue sending to that email address. If you didn't have a catchall, the spammers who take the time to prune their databases would then remove those addresses from their lists. My domain control panel makes it quite easy for me to set up new email accounts (and no limit on the number), so I would think it would be better to set them up as real accounts and turn off the catchall. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc All non-quoted content (c) David W. Fenton, all rights reserved _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
