Hi all,

What are the real-world caveats of offering "catch-all" mailboxes
(a.k.a. "nobody" aliases in IMail)?

A hosting provider, I have long denied this service to our customers for
fear of spammers inundating our mail servers with fabricated addresses
culled from a name dictionary.  Furthermore, I fear that when those
spammers do not receive a "No Such User" error, they will catalogue the
bogus addresses as "legit," share it with other spammers, and forever
send thousands (millions?) of mis-addressed messages to a domain that
has long since disabled the catch-all feature.

Am I overreacting?

Any input is appreciated.

Dave

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David M. Delbridge
Circa 3000
ColdFusion Hosting
http://www.circa3k.com

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