punchdouble

In the past I used to use my default/catch all account, but due to the amount of spam I receive that way I decided to turn my default address off. Because I was using several email addresses when using the catchall account I want to filter all email for those addresses to go to the address I'm currently using.

Right now I have everything set up like this:

Default addresses: Discarding all unrouted mail for my domain

For the filtering I set up an 'Account Level Filter' with the rules saying everything "to" "equaling" the email addresses "redirect" to the account I use.

So to be clear. I only set up 1 email account on my domain, which is the one I use. Apart from that I have the default account but I don't use that. The addresses that I filter out don't have actual accounts.

Is this the right way to do it?
I seem to have issues receiving some email for the accounts sometimes. When I try to send an email to the accounts I get it, but sometimes I don't seem to be getting registration info from forums and stuff (I do have SpamAssassin enabled with a 5.0 score and autodeleting).

Thanks in advance!

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punchdouble.com [dior]

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Why not create forwarders for the legitimate accounts and drop everything else?

Example:
mysecretemailmydomain.com is the top secret email address nobody knows
surmunitymydomain.com has a forwarder to mysecretemailmydomain.com for Surmunity messages
ticketsystemmydomain.com has a forwarder to mysecretemailmydomain.com for Support tickets
...and so on. That should accomplish what you want to do.

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punchdouble

that way i still wouldnt need the actual physical accounts right?

sounds a lot easier yeah

lol why didnt i think of it

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punchdouble.com [dior]

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Yeah, exactly, this way you have just one true account and all the "dummy" accounts you set up are done via forwarder. Keeps it much simpler that way.

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MarkRH

I do that alot with sites I register with. I've got a google youtube and so on that forward to my email address. This also helps track where spam starts coming from and where that email address got leaked from. If it starts getting spam, you remove that forwarder and make a new one and also change the email address where the offending one was registered.

Although, I do sometimes get lazy and just register my normal email address. MailWasher cleans it all up anyway.

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