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16 Jan 2021, 09:09 AM | #1 |
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Aliases and catchall
Hi all, I'm a new customer of Fastmail.
I was reading their article on Aliases and catchall here and I thought to put it in practice to organise my emails. I've created a catchall and started providing personalised email addresses to my contacts (for example, bankname@mydomain.com to my bank, netflix@mydomain.com and so on) and I have also created some rules and labels. What's the difference between a catchall and using for instance anything@user.mydomain.com - is this a sort of catchall itself? Is this the way the service is meant to be used? I've been reading some articles online advising against catchalls because of spam. Fastmail features are so powerful and I'm not sure what would be the best way to organise my emails. Thank you for your help! |
16 Jan 2021, 10:12 AM | #2 |
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Thoughts about subdomain addressing
Welcome to EMD Forums and to Fastmail! Fastmail is very flexible and there are several ways to achieve your goals.
I just wrote about this in the following posts:
But I don't depend on this wildcard, and I have specific aliases set up for each alias I want to use at my domain. The only reason I have the wildcard alias enabled at this moment is for testing purposes, so I can see how much random alias spam to my domain arrives. This has been significant in the past, but at this time nearly all such spam is either rejected at the SMTP stage (before you can possibly see it) or by the Fastmail spam filter. In a few cases I block a sender or add a rule in the Filters & Rules screen, but it's rare that this is required. As I described in the post I referred to above, I normally use subdomain addressing for signing up at services. I either use a Fastmail domain alias I control or an alias at my personal domain. My feeling about use of certain addresses and a personal domain is:
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16 Jan 2021, 10:52 AM | #3 | |
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For example, deny everything sent to *@mydomain.com as this address does not exists.... other than: service1@mydomain.com, service2@mydomain.com, ..... etc. (which I already created the aliases for). Can I achieve this by creating a reject setting for alias *@mydomain.com? |
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16 Jan 2021, 12:05 PM | #4 | |
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If you have the wildcard alias enabled for your domain, you can disable specific addresses by creating aliases for those addresses, but in the alias settings set them to "Reject (bounce) all mail sent to this address (disable the alias)". Bill |
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16 Jan 2021, 08:30 PM | #5 |
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Thank you Bill, very useful!
I've just noticed the following: - I currently have only one user, myself: firstname@mydomain.com - I have now deleted the catchall - I have now set up several aliases e.g. netflix@mydomain.com, and a more generic one mail@mydomain.com I noticed that the subdomain technique (anything@user.mydomain.com) works also for aliases (anything@alias.mydomain.com), which is great as I don't need to set up another user. I could not see this in the Fastmail documentation. For example, considering the above address, the following one also works: netflix@mail.mydomain.com - even thought 'mail' is not a user, but just another alias. |
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