On Jan 12, 2013, at 00:07, mo...@arcor.de wrote: >> Please note that catchall addresses are evil and strongly discouraged. > > Whys that? Im the only recipient of all mail directed at domainA.org (so no > "spying") and as such can use websiteisignedupw...@domaina.org so I can > always tell which site gave my address away and block it. Theres also no > bounces because ALL postboxes at that domain are accepted.
+1 evil and strongly discouraged. There are other ways to use tagged e-mail addresses for signups and the like, such as creative use of the recipient delimiter; http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#recipient_delimiter Or by using a prefix followed by a unique string, which is then routed to a single, existing mailbox; signup-*@example.com -> sig...@example.com Accept or reject, never bounce if you can avoid it. Cya, Jona
