<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type">
<title></title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">
Okay, what is a "catchall email alias" and where do I find them so I
can remove them?<br>
<br>
Van<br>
<br>
Michtele Neylon wrote:<br>
<blockquote
cite="mid1088278968.10195.1.camel@guinevere.office.blacknight.ie"
type="cite">
<pre wrap="">On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 12:35 -0700, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:
</pre>
<blockquote type="cite">
<pre wrap="">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.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<pre wrap=""><!---->
If you disable catchall email aliases you can get rid of a lot of these
bounces
-------------------------- MailScanner list ----------------------
To leave, send leave mailscanner to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk">jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk</a>
Before posting, please see the Most Asked Questions at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/">http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/</a> and the archives at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html">http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html</a>
.
</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
----------------------------------------------------------
Sign up now for Quotes of the Day, a handful of quotations
on a theme delivered every morning.
Enlightenment! Daily, for free!
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:twisted@whidbey.com?subject=Subscribe_QOTD">mailto:twisted@whidbey.com?subject=Subscribe_QOTD</a>
For web design, hosting, and maintenance,
visit Van's home page: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/">http://www.domainvanhorn.com/van/</a>
-----------------------------------------------------------</pre>
</body>
</html>
-------------------------- MailScanner list ----------------------<br>
To leave, send leave mailscanner to <a href="mailto:jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk">jiscmail@jiscmail.ac.uk</a><br>
Before posting, please see the Most Asked Questions at<br>
<a href="http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/">http://www.mailscanner.biz/maq/</a> and the archives at<br>
<a href="http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html">http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html</a><br>