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 mailto:BahBah@MyDomain.co.uk" rel="nofollow - 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

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. 

 

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

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