On 7/17/07, Earnie Boyd earnie@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
Quoting Michelle Cox mcox@charter.net:
What I do is I have a catch all forwarder on my domain and then I can make up any email and it forwards to my main email.
Yes, this is the way to do it. Forget about those silly games with + signs and such.
Aside from adding to your argument's strength, I fail to see anything silly or gamish about using a + sign more than using catchall.
Catchall has the small drawback of drastically increasing the dictionary spam to a domain. I was using catchall and used the system you describe - now I'm regretting it because I get so much spam from it. I far wish I had used the user+extension@example.com system.
I would even add a DNS entry for dev.sample.com, set up the catch all forwarding email for dev.sample.com only and it becomes easy to have as many email@dev.sample.com you want.
RFC2606 [1] recommends that example.com be used when you are looking for an example domain. Using something else sends traffic and linkjuice etc. to either live domains (who may not appreciate it) or in this case to domainers who love the extra traffic. I don't begrudge them the traffic, but since I spent some time searching for these [2] and replacing them in comments and documentation in Drupal core/contrib I'd appreciate others help in using the appropriate example for example domains.
[1] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt [2] http://drupal.org/node/98688
Regards, Greg