I would concur. Serious issue.
-Ron
Humankind Systems, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ed Taylor
> Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 2:41 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam creates sub-boxes on IMAIL!
>
>
> I mentioned this back in Feb on the list and over a year ago
> to Ipswitch.
> However, it STILL is not fixed or seriously addressed by
> Ipswitch. We get
> SPAM (can you believe people SPAM our users? haha) but the
> thing is it has a
> twist because we use IMAIL... when we get Spammed the
> Spammers send to such
> things as [EMAIL PROTECTED] and thus it makes a sub-box
> called George under
> the user Bob... this is very annoying and causes extra space
> to be used all
> across the system. I had mentioned to Ipswitch over a year
> ago that they
> should have a way to limit the making of Sub-boxes... so that only the
> system can make them and not from someone sending email outside of the
> system. If it is from that Domain it will create it if not it won't.
>
> I want to know how many others have this happening to them...
> or I should
> say even know that it is happening to your systems and users?
>
> Oh and changing the Delimiter is NOT the answer. We did it
> and after a week
> or so the spammers started using the new delimiter... and we
> had all of our
> users confused to boot. This is something I believe is serious and
> annoying... Ipswitch we need a fix.
>
>
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> FIRST USA Inc.
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> P.O. Box 355
> St.Clairsville, OH. 43950
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