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Do you provide catchall email accounts ?
Posted by Helpdesk Admin on 30 June 2010 01:33 PM
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Support for catchall accounts officially ended on 31 December 2009, and all catchall accounts will be disabled after the end of 2010.
In most cases you an achieve the same thing by creating an email forwarding for each named required email address in to a single POP3 account.
Our Qmail system currently allows management of catchall accounts only for backwards compatibility with our older migrated hosting customers, this facility will be removed in 2011.
We strongly advise customers not to configure catchall accounts, even if their account still appears to allow this.
Catchall configurations will no longer be supported and may be disabled at any time for operational reasons.
Catchall accounts are a bad idea for several reasons. Firstly, they prevent our mail servers from being able to reject emails sent to non-existent addresses. This seriously increases the amount of spam and virus emails that our servers need to handle. It also damages the reputation of our mail servers. Also, because catchall accounts are generally pointed at a POP3 mailbox, they will tend to fill up with rubbish much faster than if only named addresses are allowed. This means that delays to and interruption of your email delivery is more likely. | |
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