My Question for Catch - ALL

[dannygoh]

Hi,

I have a user need this do be done and i need you guys to help out.

basically they have 10 users, and on the office their running VPOP3 (a software that collect all the mail in a single email account and distribute to their users in the office, basically is catch-all account)

This user is currently under dictionary attack of their email.

My question is, can i create 10 pop3 email account and forward the email to master account (download by VPOP3) and delete the message. i put the catch-all to drop message.

If yes, how can i delete the 10 pop3 email account after it forward to master account. can a cron job do that?

 

[toml]

If I understand you correctly, it can be done. Just create one pop3 mail account, and then create all the other accounts as forwarders pointing to the pop3 account you created. The emails will never get stored for the forwarder accounts, so there will be no need to clean them up, your pop3 client will delete the messages after downloading them.

 

[dannygoh]

your answer is simple and clear. i try it out and thanks a bunch

 

[ovsoft]

Can't you simply activate 10 forwards without pop3s?

 

[toml]

Can't you simply activate 10 forwards without pop3s?

Yes, assuming the server running VPOP3 is an internet facing SMTP server on a domain that defines it with an MX record. But if it is not, then a POP3 mailbox would need to be created to store the emails, until that server fetches them.