E-mail hosting provider that can set up aliases with wildcards
- by Richard Downer
I am looking for an e-mail hosting provider that allow e-mail aliases containing wildcards.
In more detail: I own my own domain. I want an e-mail hosting provider to manager e-mail for my domain.
Now, to help deal with spam, I often give different e-mail addresses to different organisations. These e-mail addresses always start with the same prefix, but then differ. So, for example, I might give out these e-mail addresses:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
I want to be able to go to the e-mail provider's control panel and set up an e-mail alias like this:
[email protected] -- bounce/discard (because this address has been sold to spammers)
joe-*@sample.com -- redirect to [email protected]
What's I don't want to do is either have to set up every single e-mail address individually (because I make them up whenever I need them), nor do I want to have a general catch-all for any unrecognised address in my domain (because I don't want to be carpet-bombed with spam when a spammer runs a dictionary attack against my domain name.)
Although this seems like a useful feature to have, it seems to be a little-known feature and I've not seen anybody advertise this feature. My current hosting provider offer this but I want to move away from them, so I need another provider that will continue to work with all the e-mail addresses I've been using for years.
Alternatively, I could use mail server software that runs on Windows - I have seen some commercial packages offering this feature but they cost more than I can afford - are there any suggestions for low-cost software packages?
