William Sanders / EFG wrote: > I use LP as my email server, but I've set up the main email box > to be a catch all for things aren't really addressed to either my regular > accounts or a known alias account.
LP? I reject all mail to my domains that don't have usernames/aliases set up for them. Why should my mailserver process things like [EMAIL PROTECTED] > My known alias'd accounts are forwarded over to my regular account. My mailserver ends up forwarding almost everything to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > If I sign up for a site for some subscription, I sign up with an alias'd > account - say something like this for eweek - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I used to do that, too. > Then I set up a forwarder in the Control Panel, anything with > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' goes over to my regular email account. Once it's > set, I never have to worry about LOSING an email going to the general box. I use other rules, such as list-id for mailing lists (the bulk of my email) and from. > If I start to get in spam from eweek, then I know exactly WHO SOLD MY > EMAIL ADDRESS to spammers. And what will you do about it? A waste of energy IMO. > Also, I've set up filters to toss most of the basic words to /dev/null , > so If you've sent me something that contains that list, It's tossed. I > never see it, I couldn't give you stats on how many were tossed. Sounds risky and unneeded. > Once a week, I have a cron job that deletes the contents of my general > email box, cause I KNOW I didn't sign up for anything coming into the > general email account. I get a handful of stuff to my main inbox, instead of various imap subfolders. These tend to be output messages from jobs running on various servers. I skim and delete, and my inbox is kept clean. A handful of spam comes in too, and I mark it Junk for TBird to get smarter. > Sure, it's a bit of work. It requires me to preflight email for a while, > studying patterns and setting up filters, as well as setting up forwarders > for the alias'd accounts. It forced me to learn php for setting up a cron > job. My forwarding list is long, but I've grown it over the last 5 years. > My 'auto-toss' list is long as well, but it grew over the same time. But > ya know what ? all of those things were available to me on my LP > webhosting account. I LOVE LP.... > > [Blatant Plug] You can see some of their stuff over at > http://efgroup.net/efglunar.html Oh, LP = LunarPages. So they are good hosts? I just can't really get my head around trusting a third-party to actually host my stuff. I like to be in complete control of my servers. This could be a failing on my part. > Sure - I still do preflight on my mail account via the web, all the time - > it's not a time waster for me. I like having SquirrelMail as a fallback for Thunderbird, because sometimes I find myself behind draconian firewalls that let https:// through but not secure IMAP or secure SMTP, and SM has a nice interface, however when given a choice I'm not going to read my mail twice, and I'm going to choose Tbird every time. > On a Lighter Note - > What are you doing receiving all of your email with a client package in > the first place ? BAD FORM, IMO. You should preflight yer email on a web > browser first, MOST hosting companies actually have this built in to the > account you can buy. I NEVER EVER JUST push the send/receive button for my > main account. NEVER. I don't understand what "preflighting" gives you. My mailserver rejects much more mail than it accepts, and I have server rules to place my mail into a complex hierarchy of imap folders, so that when I use my mail client to see my mail, it is all organized for me. Are you saying I should never do that? And what do you mean you never send email for your main account? How do you send mail? -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
