You could make bob.mbx and the others read-only files. Then mail would
be rejected.
Dave
In reply to 18 Apr message from [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>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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