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[ILUG] Setting up a mail server

[ILUG] Setting up a mail server

Paul Mc Auley paul at novara.ie
Thu Apr 20 17:17:53 IST 2006


On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:59:18 +0100  Colm Buckley wrote:

| A domain provider which has email forwarding would be the best bet.   
| It seems that EuroDNS can actually do this, but they will forward all  
| mail to all addresses in the gayleard.com domain to a single other IP  
| address.  If this is acceptable to you, you should set the MX records  
| for the domain to whatever EuroDNS recommend, and perform whatever  
| other configuration at their end is necessary to forward mails from  
| *@gayleard.com to whatever destination you require.

I would comment that IMNSO catchall e-mail addresses while handy a lot of 
the time wind up being eeevil on the basis that sooner or later some 
spammer Joe-Jobs arbitrary addresses at the domain into the ground.

It's a shame because I used to use it as a means to track where e-mail 
addresses went without having to rely on trickery involving +.
	Paul




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