Ipswitch will tell you "You can turn it off" however then you can have no
subboxes for things like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is something they need to fix... a disallow creation of Sub-boxes from
outside the Domain switch (i.e. @bob.net) is the way it can be stopped. I
have repeatedly told Ipswitch about it and posted about it back in Feb...
but to date no fix. I don't care if it is a 'Feature'... it needs a switch
to disallow creation from outside the domain for those who do not want
on-the-fly box creation. Allow creation from within the WebMessaging so that
you can have subboxes but not from mail just being sent to a subbox. Many
Spammers send email to random addresses and then 'learn' what addresses work
and then later continues to use those addresses... I know once I get a
subbox it will continue to get email... over time this causes TONS of
subboxes and when you have users that do not use Webmessaging they never
know and your Mail system grows and grows from Spammed subboxes. I know
personally I have about 50 subboxes in my email alone that I continuously
have to clean out and delete those sub-boxes. What a pain...
--
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
--
Simply 1st in Internet Service!
--
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Eric Langley
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 4:51 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Spam creates sub-boxes on IMAIL!
Hmm...
And all this time I have been using Outlook's rules...
This sounds like a feature that simply needs a switch. Turn it on or turn it
off so that spammers can not overwhelm web messaging.
If you use IMAP in Outlook does it automatically create folders to put the
messages in? Or do you just create a rule based on the Where the To Line
Contains People....
Eric Langley
networksystems.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 4:25 PM
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
> > --
> > Simply 1st in Internet Solutions!
> > --
> >
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