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Old 09-24-2007, 11:39 PM
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Default Catchall Emails

Another very very popular question that we seem to get asked a lot is: do we support catch all email addresses and if not, why?

The catchall email address is the most horrid form of email you can think of. This is where all the spammers say... aha! we've found gold. 128@N1mm.domain.com can be spamed and no matter what you put it will always accept.

So they flood the servers with bogus email, eating up CPU and memory time (which then crashes the mail server and etc..)

So the above is why we don't support catch-all address's....sorry guys...
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