Cutting out catch-all for my email

Up until now sending an email to anything[at]ulseth.no would come to my trond[at]ulseth.no account as it was set up as a catch-all account. However, I'm sad to say, this is one more battle the spammers have won.

The problem was not spam sent to me (that usually comes to my trond address as I've used that for a zillion years - and not to careful about where I left it for the a good many of those years. Anyway the spam-filter on the server catches most of those).

The problem is spoofing. That means that the spammers use a fake email address to send their emails. And when a spammer sends out a billion emails from agfh[at]ulseth.no (or some such random ulseth.no address) a whole lot of those are bounced back, because the address is not valid or a spam filter bounces it back. So I'd get houndreds of "failed delivery" or similar messages each day.

On that note - I think spam filters that bounces the emails back are just adding to the problem they are trying to solve.

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