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I tried this. Tried this with my domain as well. Spammers have figured this out. They start spamming random emails on my domain and since there's catch all I do
by crossroadsguy 3y ago
I tried this. Tried this with my domain as well. Spammers have figured this out. They start spamming random emails on my domain and since there's catch all I do receive them. Randomly generated emails from dedicated services (duck.com, HME etc) work better. I can just disable them and don't have to worry about other random emails. Handling all this on my own domain is going to cost me a lot in both money and time and that'd be a lot of headache as well. Also, almost every body worth their spice and sugar knows of that "+ thingie" on gmail.com. Just saying.
- simfree 3y agoOutsource it to a firm dedicated just to mail, like MXRoute.
- superkuh 3y agoThat's a feature not a bug. Now your in-email client spam filter has a much easier time tagging spam because the same exact spam message sent to three different addresses. It works great for me. I love catch-all.
- legitster 3y agoAre we talking about data being shared across services or spammers? Spammers play by different rules because they can just generate infinite email addresses on the fly and not have to worry about storing them unless they get a hit. I would consider that a different vector than your legitimate email address being shared. In my experience, a private email domain is a neon sign for spammers. I would never recommend a private domain for privacy or anti-spam reasons.
- crtasm 3y agoMaybe that was targeted, I don't get random address spam on my 15yr+ catchall. I do get a lot of spam sent to [someone else's email] where my own email address was BCC'd.