Anyone Else Using A Catchall?

[rmcb5]

If so are you getting hammered with hundreds of "bounced" or "rejected" messages everyday? I seem to be inundated with these bounced messages that have a from address of some fictitional user on one of my domains. If you have this porblem how have you dealt with it?

I know the easy solution is to just turn off the catchall. However I think I still have a few accounts out there somewhere that use a non-existant e-mail address that is then picked up via the catchall.

[eugene]

I use a catch-all on all of my domains. Fortunately, I only get 3 spam messages a day to the accounts. I have also created :blackhole: entries to those addresses that are guaranteed to be spam and a couple that got onto the spam lists.

[JustClem]

I use a catchall, and at times I get the bounce messages when some ^*&% spammer forges their garbage from nonexistent users at my domain. I set up a couple of rules in Thunderbird that automatically move these messages ot another folder, which I delete on occassion.

This doesn't happen to me very frequently, but it is a nuisance when it happens.

[Ortwin]

I just recently turned off my catch all. The downside was, of course, I had to create about 100 forwarding aliases.

I blew this off for the longest time - as I didn't want to / know how to "find" all of my aliases. After I thought about it in ernest for about, oh, 5 minutes, I simply FTP'd all of my Thunderbird email files to a unix box and 'grepped' for 'envelope to' and I had all of my unique aliases. :-)

[rmcb5]

Originally posted by Ortwin@Nov 15 2005, 08:35 PM
I just recently turned off my catch all. The downside was, of course, I had to create about 100 forwarding aliases.

I blew this off for the longest time - as I didn't want to / know how to "find" all of my aliases. After I thought about it in ernest for about, oh, 5 minutes, I simply FTP'd all of my Thunderbird email files to a unix box and 'grepped' for 'envelope to' and I had all of my unique aliases. :-)

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Thanks for all your responses, I probably just need to figure out what I have out there and and do the same. It has become really bad lately.

[Mikester]

I point my catchalls to my gmail account. Gmail's filters catch most of the fictitious addy spammers.

FWIW, in my experience, the shorter the domain name, the more likely it is to be utilized by these spammers.

[mutter]

I use a catchall. I have a very effective filter in outlook express, that basically says:

If message subject contains any of the words (fail, delivery, daemon, notification, etc.) OR from: field contains "daemon"
AND
message to: field is NOT my primary address (mutter@mydomain.com)

then delete the message from server.

I still get failure reports that are my own fault, because they are allowed through to mutter@mydomain.com. But all the bogus ones, lzxzz@mydomain.com, bobstark@mydomain.com, etc. all get wiped out.

This works great when I am using OE, but I still get the failure messages when using webmail for any length of time.

Is there any way to implement this filter on the server side?