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This is quite clever. I have avoided wildcards because I have not wanted to deal with the increased spam sent by bots to random (jane@ eve@) or not so random ad
by steve19 7y ago
This is quite clever. I have avoided wildcards because I have not wanted to deal with the increased spam sent by bots to random (jane@ eve@) or not so random addresses (webmaster@).
- m3047 7y agoThank you. Some people view wildcarding the domain as basically turning it into a honeypot (and using the spam to train the spam filter). I wanted to be able to provide feedback, not blowback, and rejecting at SMTP transfer time is the distinguishing factor. Yes I do eat my own dogfood, and I'm finding that I'm almost using aliases as cookies now.
- madamelic 7y agoIt just doesn't happen, in my experience. I have 5 different domains with catch-alls and I get 0 unsolicited emails. I have seen it happen at companies that paste their emails everywhere, but with personal domains, it doesn't happen.
- m3047 7y agoSome day your luck, or your interests, will change; maybe you'll remember this project and come back and visit us.