On 07/12/2023 12:17, Terry Coles wrote:
I still cannot understand where the security risk lies, so maybe it's time to ask IONOS. At least I won't be asking them to explain something that is obvious to everyone else, which was my initial concern.
I just spoke to IONOS Support, who were remarkably quick to answer my call, but also remarkably useless. When I asked what the risk was in using mail forwards as aliases I was initially told that this was the new Policy, not what the risk was. When I persisted, I was eventually told that this was to stop me spamming! Since the alias would point to my legitimate domain, I fail to see how banning aliases prevents me getting away with spamming any more than using the mailbox address would.
I now have to raise a complaint, but it looks as if I'm going to have to transfer my domain to another provider and laboriously set up all the aliases again (I have 399, although some of those may well be defunct). Hopefully the new provider won't have the same bright idea.
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