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Postby cyprusgrump » Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:45 pm

You are absolutely correct…

I used to have ‘catch-all’ addresses on my web sites so that if anybody misspelt ‘[email protected]’ as ‘slaes’ it still got through.

The results were millions and millions of spam e-mails sent to random e-mail addresses at the domain.
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Postby Sega » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:07 pm

cyprusgrump wrote:You are absolutely correct…

I used to have ‘catch-all’ addresses on my web sites so that if anybody misspelt ‘[email protected]’ as ‘slaes’ it still got through.

The results were millions and millions of spam e-mails sent to random e-mail addresses at the domain.


This depends on your provider, mine does not go through. You can set all uknown email address on your particular domain to still go to your address. I purely have them rejected. I like to think of my email like a stealth email, just so happens that some bright spark has got through.
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Postby cyprusgrump » Mon Feb 04, 2008 2:14 pm

Sega wrote:
cyprusgrump wrote:You are absolutely correct…

I used to have ‘catch-all’ addresses on my web sites so that if anybody misspelt ‘[email protected]’ as ‘slaes’ it still got through.

The results were millions and millions of spam e-mails sent to random e-mail addresses at the domain.


This depends on your provider, mine does not go through. I set it up so it is rejected. You can set all uknown email address on your particular domain to still go to your address. I purely have them reject them. I like to think of my email like a stealth email, just so happens that some bright spark has got through.

Yes, I have to reject all mine now... :evil:
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