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18 Oct 2020, 07:45 AM | #1 |
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Bouncing emails preferred method
Here's a quote from Bill from 2014:
If you have a wildcard target set up, you can also set up other targets. The wildcard will only be used if no specific aliases are found. If a virtual alias targets itself, that address won't exist. So if you enter nemo@mydomain targeting nemo@mydomain, messages sent to that address will generate a bounce (as if the address does not exist). This will happen even if the wildcard alias is active, and is one way to block certain addresses at your domain? Is this still the preferred way to block a particular alias when you have a wildcard at your own domain? For example, I get spam at paypal@mydomain.com. Should I create an alias where paypal@mydomain.com targets paypal@mydomain.com to bounce it? Should this alias come before the *@mydomain.com targeting my Fastmail address, or after? Or is there a better way? Thanks. |
18 Oct 2020, 11:50 AM | #2 |
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As far as I know, Bill's recommended solution is still the best. The order of the aliases will not matter. Regardless of where it exists in the list, the wildcard alias is always processed last.
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18 Oct 2020, 01:17 PM | #3 |
The "e" in e-mail
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I would have thought you would have to do every alias individually otherwise surly you would block the whole domain.
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19 Oct 2020, 06:43 AM | #4 |
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When you say "bounce" I hope you mean "reject". Bouncing means to discard a message and send a delivery status notification to the sender. For spam this can mean sending unwanted backscatter if the sender address is forged.
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19 Oct 2020, 07:57 AM | #5 | |
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Thanks for the correction - I definitely mean reject, so that I no longer get email to a specific alias at my domain. |
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20 Oct 2020, 02:32 PM | #6 | |||
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An alias can be directly set to be blocked
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https://www.emaildiscussions.com/showthread.php?p=568760#post568760 But that was over six years ago, and Fastmail has greatly changed over that period. Now there is a direct way of disabling a particular alias at your domain:
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Bill |
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21 Oct 2020, 02:48 AM | #7 |
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Thanks so much Bill - glad I asked. I also want to thank you very much for all the great information and assistance you've provided over the years - you've helped me immensely.
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21 Oct 2020, 06:59 AM | #8 |
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You are very welcome. Fastmail has improved their service greatly in the last few years and now it is unusual to require use such "tricks".
Bill |