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Originally Posted by Mel  If anyone has some time, could you explain why a catch-all email is so good for spammers? I understand that it allows them to send email to any address they can make up, but what is the point? All the mail ends up with just one person. So they have slowed down someone's server and filled someone's mail box, aren't they trying to sell ******? |
Well a cathcall accepts:
*@yourdoamin.com
Which means that anyone that sends anything even:
asdasdad21d12mdn1@yourdomain.com or
%swannsdn23@yourdomain.com
your server will accept. Which means that ******, spam, porn, c alias, etc... will be accepted and if you have a forwarder... its a whole big mess again. Not to mention that the load is about 2 - 4 times higher then it is now at the highest point...
Basically, its not a good idea at all, hurts more then it fixes.