On October 8, 2004 2:39 am, Phillip T. George wrote: > Also sounds like you have a "catch all" turned on...meaning ANYTHING > going to @haligonan.com goes to a specific address. It would make sense > to disable this. The only use (that I can think of, off the top of my True, I do. I suppose I should disable it, but usually it's no problem and it's nice to not worry about people mistyping my name. Originally I did it so I could play funny jokes with a young lady I was dating (by changing my name to macgyver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, bigbaby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, etc. depending on the conversation in question) and still be able to receive mails even if she sent to one of those addresses. But she is so long gone that I had forgotten that reason until I just had to dig one up to justify the catchall. :-) > I don't know of any actions you can take to move them on. Get a new > domain name and/or new email address is the best way to de-spam..and > don't give it out ANYWHERE. Especially do not use your email address > when registering a domain name...and if possible...don't use your real > physical address. It is highly likely that someone picked up your doman Absolutely. These are all ridiculous email addresses @haligonian.com. THey're not really using my email address and if I turned off the catchall I could dump a lot of the bounces. > To summarize: > 1. Turn off the "catch all" check > 2. If your main email account is getting a lot of spam...try to change > it if possible no way. been using it for a decade and bogofilter handles the spam that comes in so I never see it (never had a false positive that I know of and I monitor fairly regularly). :-) > Sounds like you already have some anti-spam software installed. If not, > you mght look into SpamAssassin and especially look into "Bayesian > filtering" Definitely. That's what bogofilter is. I strongly recommend it. I have it set up on my single user system, interfaced with Kmail and no procmail or fetchmail or anything is required. -- Trevor Smith // trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
