setting the default email address (catchall) not working.

NetHosted Customer Joined: 03 May 2011 Posts: 12

I have set the catchall forwarder to my personal address however I am still getting mails bounced?
I have no other forwarders set.
any advice appreciated

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

We strongly recommend against setting a catchall as it just typically catches spam.

You must also disable the ASSP "No Local Address" filter for the catchall to work.

Thanks,

Andrew

Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2011 6:45 pm Post subject:

Do spam bombs still occur?

I've used catch all emails for ages on a number of different accounts as I give out a different email address every time I'm asked for one (recently this caught out TravelLodge when their email list escaped). I've never had a problem (and very little spam) though I do know of a friend who had issues years back.

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Hi,

They do still occur, it's just our server has to manually process each message and do various spam checks on it when a catchall is set. When there is no catchall set the server doesn't have to do spam checks on the messages to non-existent inboxes.

Thanks,

Andrew

NetHosted Customer Joined: 03 May 2011 Posts: 12

I will go with the advice of the experts! I will do something else for now -Thank

NetHosted Staff Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 7017

Happy to help

Andrew

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