On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
They why have a catch-all at all? Isn't this the same as having multiple email addresses that deliver to the same account? i.e. aliases. > 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. They don't exist because everybody else uses aliases, forwarders, plus-addressing, etc. for an account. This has the added benefit that it scales for multiple accounts in the same domain. Seems to me that if you really want to change the way email behaves, then you should think about writing an RFC. -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ 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/
