Bounce <-> Bounce <-> Bounce

[G. Armour Van Horn]

Okay, what is a "catchall email alias" and where do I find them so I can
remove them?

Van

Michtele Neylon wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 12:35 -0700, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
>
>
>>I've just taken over handling mail for seven existing domains, and
>>though the volume isn't all that high I wish I didn't have to deal with
>>bounces from viruses sent to nonexistent users.
>>
>>I can understand that it is normal and desirable to send a 5.1.1 User
>>Unknown response to an e-mail sent to a nonexistent user. However, when
>>that e-mail is identified as spam, bouncing it means that I get a third
>>message back, which I get to read personally, as a result.
>>
>>If I could drop inbound spam to invalid users I could cut the load on
>>the server down, not to mention the load on my time.
>>
>>
>
>If you disable catchall email aliases you can get rid of a lot of these
>bounces
>
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