I think you've just made it more complicated than it needs to be. If you
set the 'Sub-mailbox Creation' option on the domain in IMail
Administrator to 'Send to Inbox', you'll have a setup where
[EMAIL PROTECTED] goes straight to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s
mailbox. You get all the tracker addresses you want, but stuff without a
valid username at the start gets rejected.
The only case where that won't work is if the username already has a
hyphen in it, in which case you can change the mailbox delimiter in the
SMTP service settings (eg to a plus sign).
Cheers,
Evan
On 21/12/2004 at 08:54:57, Michael Grice wrote:
> I had setup "Tracker" accounts on my domain, but this thread about
> a "Nobody" alias has me wondering if this is a bad idea.
> I created a [EMAIL PROTECTED] account and then forwarded everything
> from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to that account.
> Then I setup Processing Filter/Rules on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> account. If email comes into a "valid" Tracker account, forward it to
> the real user's account.
> EXAMPLES:
> Amazon - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Barnes & Noble - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> BestBuy - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Circuit City - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CompUSA - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Netflix - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> And so on. You get the idea.
> Now, if an inbound email comes into the [EMAIL PROTECTED] account,
> ending in [EMAIL PROTECTED], it is automatically forwarded to the
> "real" account.
> Down the road, if the real account starts getting a lot of spam at
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], I can just go into the FILTERS option for
> the real email account and create a new rule that will "delete all
> incoming email addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> I am just manually deleting all messages in the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> account every few days. I know there is a way I can automate this, and
> I will. But, to me, this "Tracker" capability has been great. Perhaps
> I have been naieve, though.
> Your help and thoughts, please.
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