Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2002 20:01:52 -0000 From: "Andrew Brampton" <andrew@bramp.freeserve.co.uk> To: "Kurt Bigler" <kkb@breathhost.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] Message-ID: <006601c2ab87$4e1e79f0$0100a8c0@andrew> References: <BA2DF089.5927%kkb@breathhost.net>
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I think the orginal poster didn't mean to say set up a different subdomain for each account just a different address, for example freebsd@bramp.freeserve.co.uk php@bramp.freeserve.co.uk someSiteISignedUpAt.com@bramp.freeserve.co.uk I have a catch all email address so anything@bramp.freeserve.co.uk goes to me without having to set it up in advance, all goes to one mail box. I actually don't use this method, I should really, but I found out about it too late :( Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt Bigler" <kkb@breathhost.net> To: "Rob O'Donnell" <robert@aphnet.co.uk>; <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 7:07 PM Subject: Re: email addresses used for lists [was: L0phtcrack] > on 12/24/02 3:53 AM, Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk> wrote: > > > At 15:46 23/12/2002 -0800, Kurt Bigler wrote: > >> on 12/23/02 3:34 PM, Kenzo <kenzo_chin@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> And for using hotmail account....Computer 101, never > >>> use your real or company e-mail address to post on forums, just attracks > >>> crackers. > >> > >> I currently create a new email address for every category of mailing list > >> that I join. > > > > For web use, I use a throw-away free-ISP account (which lets me pop mail from > > anywhere!) which hands out email addresses in the form > > anything@account.isp.co.uk > > - whenever a web sites asks me for an email address, I use their domain name > > in front of the @ - nothing to set up my end, and I know immediately whenever > > I get spam through that isp which web site gave it out. (Thank you, > > Paltalk..) > > Well that's an interesting idea. Throw-away subdomains (excuse my > terminology - maybe I'm supposed to call them host names?) imply a whole > "host" of email addresses without wasting a domain name. > > I have never implemented email at a subdomain. Can most virtual domain mail > servers handle addr@foo.domain.com just as easily as addr@domain.com? > > If so, I might start "providing" myself (and others too) such options. Will > qmail+vpopmail do this transparently? Is it just a matter of the domain > name containing another "." as far as qmail+vpopmail is concerned? > > Or should I avoid giving further exposure to the domain name by creating > subdomains under it? In that case I can register one more domain name just > for this purpose. Presumably it is not a problem that it is hosted on the > same server.? > > Only problem I see is I use webmail.domain.com for webmail access at domain. > I guess I will have to find out whether zoneedit.com will let me set up DNS > such that webmail.foo.domain.com can work. (Getting really OT now - I'll > ask zoneedit about this.) > > Thanks, > Kurt Bigler > > > > > > I sort of forgot for this mailing list.... > > > > Rob > > > > > > > >> I know others use special accounts for mailing lists which refuse to receive > >> any mail that doesn't come from one of the lists that they associate with > >> the account (or else they accomplish the filtering in their email client). > >> > >> A word of warning: When I first joined freebsd-questions, I joined with my > >> "main" preferred only-for-friends spam-safe email address by mistake. Being > >> lazy, I waited a few hours to correct that, unjoining, and rejoining with > >> the desired address. But ever since then I get matching paired spams on the > >> two addresses: the one I used by mistake for a few hours, and the one that > >> I use at the moment ONLY for freebsd-questions. > >> > >> Fortunately I get only 1 or 2 spams a day like this, but I'm afraid it will > >> grow and I will have to give up my main email address, or get deeply into > >> spam filtering, which so far I have avoided. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Kurt Bigler > >> > >> > >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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