Mike,
I can see your point... that's a great use of the "feature." And I would
be interested to know if it's part of the IMAP spec. But would you feel
the same if, the next time you logged in, you had 300 new folders under
your account?
I think Ipswitch should make it a user-definable option, with the
default set to disallow such hyphenated mail unless it's coming from a
local account (that's how the system creates the Deleted and Sent
folders, I believe).
-Ron
Humankind Systems, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Hell
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 3:25 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Spam creates sub-boxes on IMAIL!
>
>
> IMHO, this is NOT a bug, this is how it's SUPPOSED to work.
> If I'm not
> mistaken, this is within the specs of the IMAP protocol (but
> I could be
> wrong). I use this feature all the time, and I would hate for
> ipSwitch to
> "fix" it.
>
> Here's how I use this feature:
>
> If I'm at a webpage that asks for my email address (as many
> do) I give enter
> the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] For example, if the
> Symantec site asks
> for my email address, I would put
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Now, any
> mail they send me automaticaly gets sorted into that box (I
> use IMAP as my
> mail protocol in Outlook). This also helps to trap where a peticular
> spammer may have gotten my address from.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Taylor
> > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:41 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam creates sub-boxes on IMAIL!
> >
> >
> > I mentioned this back in Feb on the list and over a year
> ago to Ipswitch.
> > However, it STILL is not fixed or seriously addressed by
> Ipswitch. We get
> > SPAM (can you believe people SPAM our users? haha) but the thing
> > is it has a
> > twist because we use IMAIL... when we get Spammed the Spammers
> > send to such
> > things as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and thus it makes a sub-box called
> > George under
> > the user Bob... this is very annoying and causes extra space to
> > be used all
> > across the system. I had mentioned to Ipswitch over a year
> ago that they
> > should have a way to limit the making of Sub-boxes... so
> that only the
> > system can make them and not from someone sending email
> outside of the
> > system. If it is from that Domain it will create it if not it won't.
> >
> > I want to know how many others have this happening to
> them... or I should
> > say even know that it is happening to your systems and users?
> >
> > Oh and changing the Delimiter is NOT the answer. We did it and
> > after a week
> > or so the spammers started using the new delimiter... and we had
> > all of our
> > users confused to boot. This is something I believe is serious and
> > annoying... Ipswitch we need a fix.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Edgar D. Taylor
> > President/CEO
> > FIRST USA Inc.
> > 69500 Bannock Rd.
> > P.O. Box 355
> > St.Clairsville, OH. 43950
> > Voice: (800) 716-6190
> > Fax: (740) 695-7258
> > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Web: http://www.1st.net
> > --
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