> And every time I find someone with a significant spam problem, I solve > it for them by disabling the catch-all on their domain. > > Yeah, it's convenient for you. Convenient for spammers too. It's > much easier to solve spam from a known sender to your known address, > then to solve for all random attacks against anything in your domain.
I disagree 100%. I think it should be easy for your personal mail host or client to know which addresses (even random characters) in your catchall you actually use. If somebody is addressing something to random junk at your domain, and your domain truly has no knowledge of that, then it's quarantined. Spammers sending things to random junk addresses at your domain aren't going to know your actual aliases that you actually use. Any alias that you actually use is whitelisted, and all others quarantined. I've been exceptionally happy with this setup for years. I only wish there were better tools available to manage my email identity and aliases. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
