While I’ve joked about how amusing it is to get messages from “officialsoundingusername@hill-kleerup.org” warning me that my account has expired, been suspended, has a new password, etc., it’s also gotten really annoying, as I get 100-200 of them daily. Which takes time, of course, during the download (and as I open each folder in Thunderbird), but which also makes checking my e-mail via mail2web, etc., a lot less feasible (the per-screen signal-to-noise ratio drops close to zero).
Rrg. I have to see if there’s something I can set on the cpanel level to strip that crap out.
UPDATE: Well, yes, I can in fact filter out all the “admin@” and “info@” and “webmaster@” addresses for this domain. So there.
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Instead of using the default email address on your account (ie. the same as your cpanel username…which is what you’re doing if you’re receiving insertfakecraphere@yourdomain.com), then it is recommended you set that to :blackhole: under the Set Default Address option in the Mail Manager. That will auto-delete any and all messages sent to your domain that are not specifically addressed to a POP box or forwarder. Of course, it is necessary to actually set up a POP box or forwarder which you would then use in place of the default. Capisce?
That would work, as I understand it (and we went through this on autoforwards/gmail a while back), except for two reasons:
1. My account name is “dave,” and I won’t give up that name @ my domain, certainly not in response to Evil Spammers.
2. I actually use that “feature” to my own advantage. So, for example, I had need for mail IDs for some alternate characters on City of Heroes (on one of the supergroup fora); rather than actually create POP accounts, I just specified that the mail account was “heroname@mydomain” — any mail that comes to that address gets to me, without my having to set anything up.
Ditto other circumstances, where I’m asked to give an e-mail address and am not sure of the rectitude of the folks asking it — I simply give a “dave-companyname” @ mydomain address, so if anything funky comes in, I know who did it (and can then act accordingly).
Goofy, yeah, I know.
That said, thanks (as always) for the good advice, even if I don’t accept it. 🙂
I’ve been getting a ton of those as of late myself. Thunderbird’s junk mail filter seems to handle them for the most part, but what’s really annoying about them is that they cause my virus scanner to go nuts. 🙂
TBird’s junk mail filter works almost all the time for them — but there’s still a lag when you open each folder (since TBird seems to only do the junk checking when you open a folder for the first time after the messages arrive).