Comments on: Tip: The Importance of having an e-mail Catch All http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/06/05/tip-the-importance-of-having-an-e-mail-catch-all/ North West Computer Consultancy Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:09:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Colin DiPonio http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/06/05/tip-the-importance-of-having-an-e-mail-catch-all/comment-page-1/#comment-4042 Colin DiPonio Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:13:18 +0000 http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/06/05/tip-the-importance-of-having-an-e-mail-catch-all/#comment-4042 Hi Gary I use a company called www.appriver.com to spam filter the messages before I get them (thank god). But you are correct I do have a small percentage of random rubbish in the catch all. I check the box a couple of times a day. It’s not very sophisticated but it does work. Colin Hi Gary

I use a company called http://www.appriver.com to spam filter the messages before I get them (thank god).

But you are correct I do have a small percentage of random rubbish in the catch all.

I check the box a couple of times a day. It’s not very sophisticated but it does work.

Colin

]]> By: Gary F http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/06/05/tip-the-importance-of-having-an-e-mail-catch-all/comment-page-1/#comment-4040 Gary F Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:09:27 +0000 http://www.colindiponio.com/2008/06/05/tip-the-importance-of-having-an-e-mail-catch-all/#comment-4040 Sorry to butt in, but what about spammers who take your domain name and then mass mail you at SomeRandomMailbox@yourdomain.com. If you use a catch-all then you're going to have every bit of spam sent to your inbox. If you're unlucky enough to have that happen to you and you still want a catch-all then at least 2 layers of spam filtering are needed. e.g. your ISP performing some mild filtering (their spam database should be updated daily) and some client side filtering such as Outlook 2007 which has monthly updates. Boy, do I hate spammers! Outlook catches over 500 a week (I have a catch-all) and I have no idea how many my ISP blocks. Sorry to butt in, but what about spammers who take your domain name and then mass mail you at SomeRandomMailbox@yourdomain.com. If you use a catch-all then you’re going to have every bit of spam sent to your inbox. If you’re unlucky enough to have that happen to you and you still want a catch-all then at least 2 layers of spam filtering are needed. e.g. your ISP performing some mild filtering (their spam database should be updated daily) and some client side filtering such as Outlook 2007 which has monthly updates. Boy, do I hate spammers! Outlook catches over 500 a week (I have a catch-all) and I have no idea how many my ISP blocks.

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