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IanSmithISA 
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Joined: 21 October 2010 Location: Worcester Status: Offline Points: 20 |
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 Topic: Catch All Email AddressesPosted: 26 December 2010 at 1:24pm |
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Good afternoon,
Firstly I promise that I have "read the manuals". :-)
I have a basic "Starter Windows Hosting" package here and I have set up the email accounts that I want, but I can't find an option for handling incoming emails addressed to non existent accounts.
For example I want BahBah@MyDomain.co.uk to go to me not be rejected as:
"The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 No such user here (state 14)."
I'm sure that it is obvious as I can't find any reference to anybody else asking.
Bye and thanks
Ian
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 27 December 2010 at 10:16am |
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These types of accounts are known as 'Catch All Account' and can be enabled from your WebsitePanel Control Panel at Mail -> Domains -> yourDomain.com
However, catch all accounts tend to attract allot of spam as spammers will send 100's of emails to your domain using popular names like dave@ john@ ben@ etc. so I would not recommend the use of catch all email accounts. Instead a better way to do this is to use the Mail Aliases to create a more limited number of email accounts that point to a single account such as have sales@ accounts@ info@ pointing to various mailboxes that you have setup.
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IanSmithISA
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Posted: 27 December 2010 at 12:53pm |
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Good morning
Thanks for this.
I agree with what you have said about setting up explicit accounts and I will do this at some point.
Bye
Ian Smith
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Dave_Evans
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Posted: 17 November 2011 at 10:02am |
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We can't use a regular expression to define the addresses we want to alias to a common one, can we?
Example: if i had sales_uk@, sales_de@, sales_us@, etc, etc. could I define sales_{a-z}[2] as an alias and catch them all? This would be easier than defining one alias for each ISO country code ;) Thanks, Dave
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WebWiz-Bruce
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Posted: 17 November 2011 at 10:28am |
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Very sorry but the mail servers do not support regular expressions for email addresses.
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