2009/12/18 Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com:
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Helping a friend change computers, we found that the email login did not work, and after a series of conversations with the provider were told to log in to get messages using
*@mydomain.com
That all sounds very odd. We set up specific email addresses for clients, and often have a "catch-all" to hoover up misaddressed emails. We did stop using those for a while because of spam, but now we have spam and virus filtering down pat, we can and do turn them back on again.
Another reason to turn off catch-all is spam back-scatter - a pesky spammer will use something a bit random @mydomain.com as the "from" address, and then badly configured email servers will send automated replies and error messages (over quota, non-existant, spam) to the faked address.
Tim.