Somehow, I created this topic under main Linux questions instead of ISPConfig. I hope someone can delete it there. Anyway, here is a copy Hello, I still have an old ISPConfig version 2.2.19 running on my box. Please don't ask to upgrade as everything running very smoothly and I don't want to mess anything up. Plus I have several Apache instances and Nginx. Reconfiguring everything would be a nightmare Anyway, on one of my primary domains names I have a catch-all email address (the administrator of the web-site). It receives close to 500+ email a day no some weird gibberish addresses like [email protected] where domain.com is my domain. If I disable catch-all - Postfix starts to send bounce emails back to those fake addresses it came from, which bounces back and etc. So I have to accept them via catch-all. Having said, it is a valid address where I get good mail - sorting every day through all that spam - I can't do it anymore Is there a way to configure Postfix to discard all catch-all emails and let valid defined accounts through? I thought about making some [email protected] a catch-all, but then I still have to clear it out every N days. I rather it just be discarded/deleted instantly. I would appreciate any help.
Go to the Spamfilter & Antivirus tab of that email account in ISPConfig and select discard as the Spam Strategy.
Thanks for the reply. I forgot to mention - spam assassin is disabled due to insane resource consumption (due to a lot of incoming mail). All virus/spam checking is done on a client with a different tool. Is there a different solution?
Assuming that you have the following 5 valid email addresses under this particular domain: [email protected] (the admin, catch-all) [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (and there are times when emails are sent to the fake gibberish addresses like [email protected] received, etc.) If I were you, I will do it this way 1) make the [email protected] NOT catch all 2) create another email address to do the catch-all (e.g. [email protected]) 3) in the ISPconfig panel, add a "foward + keep copy" so that all emails to the four valid*@domain.com will also c.c. a copy to the [email protected] 4) write a simple cron job to delete those emails inside the [email protected], set it to run once every 5 minutes (so that you don't need to clear it out every N days manually) Enjoy... Createch
