08-14-2006, 01:42 AM
A little bit more on catchall mail. Catchall and being able to blackhole mail are one of the best tools you can use to stop and track spam. I have been doing this for several years. To me, it is worth registering a domain name just for this purpose alone.
h' explained it well. Basically, you can hand out unique email addresses whenever you want to. For example when ordering from Amazon, you use amazon.com@yourdomain.com but for personal emails you can use yourname@yourdomain.com. It doesn't matter what you put in front of @yourdomain.com, all email sent to the domain will be caught and sent to whatever address you specify. If an address starts to receive spam you: 1)know immediately who leaked that email address to spammers and 2)can "blackhole" all email that comes to that address in the future. There are also some addresses that will receive spam automatically once your domain name gets known to the spammers. It is best to just start off "blackholeing" these addresses from the beginning and never giving them out to anyone. For example:
sales@yourdomain.com
info@yourdomain.com
contact@yourdomain.com
webmaster@yourdomain.com
Plus, you can take this domain name with you for the rest of your life. It's a nice feature to have so make sure the control panel you get with your web hosting supports it.
BT
h' explained it well. Basically, you can hand out unique email addresses whenever you want to. For example when ordering from Amazon, you use amazon.com@yourdomain.com but for personal emails you can use yourname@yourdomain.com. It doesn't matter what you put in front of @yourdomain.com, all email sent to the domain will be caught and sent to whatever address you specify. If an address starts to receive spam you: 1)know immediately who leaked that email address to spammers and 2)can "blackhole" all email that comes to that address in the future. There are also some addresses that will receive spam automatically once your domain name gets known to the spammers. It is best to just start off "blackholeing" these addresses from the beginning and never giving them out to anyone. For example:
sales@yourdomain.com
info@yourdomain.com
contact@yourdomain.com
webmaster@yourdomain.com
Plus, you can take this domain name with you for the rest of your life. It's a nice feature to have so make sure the control panel you get with your web hosting supports it.
BT