I have my home account with and ISP that uses IMail. Since I got in early I
managed to get the email account of "jim@___". (I got the same username
here, because I set it up that way!) Just my normal luck, the spammers send
email to jim-bob@, jim-bo@, jim-(whatever you can think of)@ and it ALL
winds up under my 'jim' account! I've tried a filter rule that if the 'to'
field contains a '-' to send it to NUL, but it has not helped. I guess IMail
checks the 'to' field AFTER the sub box is created. Since it is an ISP and
I'm only involved as a user I can't get them to change the default '-' to
something else (like [alt255]??).
Maybe Ipswitch needs to look at making that 'feature' a user option!
Jim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message -----
From: Marco Argentieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:19 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] AARRRGHHHHHH!
> Hi everybody.
>
> I just saw a terrible behaviour on my Imail 5.09 running on a WinNT4.0
sp6.
>
> Let's suppose we have a mailbox called [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> This mailbox works properly and I can send and receive mail correctly.
>
> what if someone sends a test message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (this
> mailbox doesn't exist and no alias has never been specified using that
> name)?
>
<SNIP>
> Did anybody notice the same thing before?
> does your mail server behave the same as mine?
> any solutions?
>
> (Len, Daniel, I hope you will be able to solve this too... ;-))
>
> thanks in advance..
>
> marco argentieri
>
>
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