If you have a better pattern to suggest, go on.

mailbox+memberid@ourdomain won't be a good approach, because it can be abused by members. someone may send a fake email to kick someone else. so we can't use a simple pattern.

mailbox+messageid@domain.com is a good idea. I use bouncemessageid@domain.com not too different. I can alter it to mailboxmessageid@domain.com if you will get benefit from it.

Exactly. I'm not leaving this mod for kids to play with it. it got to be secure. for sure.

Our own spam filters do a very good job at actually catching the spam. The main one is refusing connections for non existing accounts. Mail that does get through to real addresses will then be tagged if they are spam and passed to the MTA and moved by the MTA to the spam folder. By using a catch-all I increase the load on the MTA that the spam filters are currently releiving it of.

If you add a + sign in between the mailbox name and the message id then I think from what I have read about VERP you will be compatible. Then people can still use catch-all if they have no other choice. I am not an expert in VERP but this is how i understand it.

Yes, Then an account named bounce will catch all email to bounce+(anything)@domain.com but will not catch anything that does not start bounce+. This will definatly help in my situation and as i understand it any VERP compatible MTA.

Would you please give me a link to what you've read?

Regards

I think it's acceptable to use + or =

Just the info in wikipedia.


I can use one of four characters + - _ or %.

On wikipedia the = sign is used as an example to replace the @ if you are adding the users full email address in the return address.

Looks good, but as others have said, the copyright on FORUMHOME is completely unnecessary. So, for that reason, I'm not installing.

Same here.

If we help each other can we request homepage links too :p