First off, I'm assuming that you can control the mail server configuration at 'domain.com', correct? Usually, you'd set this up in the mail server's alias table for the domain. Depending on the mail server, you probably have the ability to use wildcards in the aliases, which can make managing them a bit easier. You'd most likely be able to use a wildcard alias to catch the errant mail and direct it to another email address. I use Rockliffe MailSite on NT for our email server. In MailSite you can accomplish this in two ways, either by setting up a wildcard alias, or by creating a "catchall" mailbox. The catchall mailbox is exactly that, it receives any email that gets by existing mailboxes, mailing lists or anything in the alias table for the domain. I'd be hesitant to set up a catchall (believe me, I know, since we have them in place for all of our domains - boss's orders). You'll end up designating someone to sift through all the garbage that comes in to these non-existant addresses. They'll get mail to old employees (no matter how many years ago they left), and incredible amounts of spam. It seems some spammers have the habit of addressing mail to common names in a domain, 'john', 'bill', 'dave', 'uwe' :-), etc. It all gets accepted by your mail server. Jim -----Original Message----- From: cftalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Saturday, August 05, 2000 10:04 AM Subject: OT: Forwarding mail which is sent to unknown postboxes ? >Hi, can I do the following: > >I want to forward mail to a certain specified mail-account even if the >mail-account is not defined. Only the domain is defined. > >Example: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a non-defined user in the mail-server of the >domain domain.com. When s.o. from outside accidently sends xy a mail the >server should transfer to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] which is defined in the mail server of domain.com >! >Is that possible and what would be the name of that feature ? > >Thank you. > >Uwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_talk or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
