On Nov 11, 2013, at 9:24 pm, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
> most everything i sign up for gets a new, unique email address; if you own a > domain, you have the option of a "catch-all" — receiving email for any > address at that domain; to do this with Fastmail, for example, one adds an > alias of "*" in the settings and that's it; in conjunction with this, > Fastmail's server-side filtering means once an address becomes abused > (surprisingly rarely) i can simply add it to a filter and i never see email > to it again, not even in a junk folder; i'll also know what service sloppily > or maliciously leaked my address Catch-all addresses are critically dependent on good spam filters because they are absolute magnets for junk mail as spammers often send out messages to random gibberish addresses. In my previous job (ostensibly as a developer, but in reality "the technical guy") it became such a problem that we "encouraged" all of our customers to dump their catch-all addresses. About 90% of the crap disappeared. Later we moved the email for all of our customers domains out to Google Apps so we didn't have to deal with email at all anymore. I rejoiced. Supporting email problems is a horrible job and I don't miss it one bit. </rant> Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
