Bernd Wurst wrote:
> But okay, disabling extension-catchall works for me now and I can live with 
> extension addresses not working at all for now.
>   

Default addresses are a really bad idea, anyway.  Spammers will, over 
time, start to send spam to increasing numbers of invalid addresses.  If 
you attempt to bounce them, you'll find that most of them are 
nonreturnable, and your postmaster account will get the notices.

One way or another, the spam goes to a person who starts to ignore it, 
because it will become overwhelming in volume.  At that point, the 
default address provides no benefit, because no one pays attention to 
what it receives; rather, it simply increases the amount of mail that 
you accept, and generally costs you resources (ultimately: money), and 
potentially leads to lost mail, since senders don't know when they 
mistype valid addresses.

Even if your customers insist that this is what they want, it will only 
be a matter of time until they ignore it or turn it off.  It's best to 
start out with a configuration that works correctly, and avoid the 
default address problem.

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