andy206uk — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:13 +0000

Don't bounce it. There's no point as the bounce address will be invalid anyway and it's just creating excessive traffic and unnecessary load for your ISP and less load on your ISP = better service for you.

pr0gr4mm3r — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:13:01 +0000

Yes, I have this problem as well. At first, I was worried that my email address was going to get blocked by filters, but I'm pretty sure that filters work by the hostname sending the emails and not the email address.

mr cgi guy — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:53:00 +0000

garethcbrown;208427 wrote: no I'm getting the undeliverable mail that has been sent by whoever it is using my domain name to create forged addresses to send their spam.

yeah, in that case i'd just bounce it. or use something like spamarrest.com to filter it if you're worried that some may actually be real.

garethcbrown — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:46:10 +0000

no I'm getting the undeliverable mail that has been sent by whoever it is using my domain name to create forged addresses to send their spam.

mr cgi guy — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:35:59 +0000

garethcbrown;208422 wrote: on my hosting service setting for undeliverable email, anything sent to addresses that don't exist, I can either select that it is returned to the sender or forwarded to another valid email address.

should I just have it set to "return to sender"?

If all it is is spam I'd just bounce it. If you have a custom bounce message, I'd include a url to a contact form or something just in case it's a real email.

garethcbrown — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:01:25 +0000

on my hosting service setting for undeliverable email, anything sent to addresses that don't exist, I can either select that it is returned to the sender or forwarded to another valid email address.

should I just have it set to "return to sender"?

mr cgi guy — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:33:06 +0000

garethcbrown;208412 wrote: Thanks everyone. I knew I'd get help here!

So what's the best way to create a blackhole account?

I checked on my hosting service and it was forwarding all email sent to anything@mydomainname to one of my main accounts. I've disabled this but don't know where to look to create a blackhole account to have all those future emails forwarded.

If you're on Cpanel you just need to set the default address as: :blackhole:
Personally, I use :fail: so that it bounces the email back.

garethcbrown — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:14:48 +0000

Thanks everyone. I knew I'd get help here!

So what's the best way to create a blackhole account?

I checked on my hosting service and it was forwarding all email sent to anything@mydomainname to one of my main accounts. I've disabled this but don't know where to look to create a blackhole account to have all those future emails forwarded.

andy206uk — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 19:02:47 +0000

Hi,

I should imagine your using a catchall email address (*@yourdomain). If this is the case, get your host to disable the catchall and leave just the aliases that you actually use (i.e. sales@ info@ yourname@ etc). Get everything else routed to a trashcan/blackhole/spam account. Then you'll only get emails that are actually addressed to valid accounts.

JeevesBond — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:33:51 +0000

We get about the same number of undeliverable messages from people using the TWF address. Problem is that sometimes there are messages that I've sent that get returned, but they get mixed up with all the other rubbish. Very annoying, there doesn't seem to be a way around it unfortunately.

If you do find a fix, let us know.