Here's how I use this feature:

If I'm at a webpage that asks for my email address (as many do) I give enter the address myname-xyz@mydomain.com. For example, if the Symantec site asks for my email address, I would put myname-symantec@mydomain.com. Now, any mail they send me automaticaly gets sorted into that box (I use IMAP as my mail protocol in Outlook). This also helps to trap where a peticular spammer may have gotten my address from.

> -----Original Message----- > From: IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com > [mailto:IMail_Forum-owner@list.ipswitch.com]On Behalf Of Ed Taylor > Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:41 PM > To: IMail_Forum@list.ipswitch.com > Subject: [IMail Forum] Spam creates sub-boxes on IMAIL! > > > I mentioned this back in Feb on the list and over a year ago to Ipswitch. > However, it STILL is not fixed or seriously addressed by Ipswitch. We get > SPAM (can you believe people SPAM our users? haha) but the thing > is it has a > twist because we use IMAIL... when we get Spammed the Spammers > send to such > things as bob-george@bob.net and thus it makes a sub-box called > George under > the user Bob... this is very annoying and causes extra space to > be used all > across the system. I had mentioned to Ipswitch over a year ago that they > should have a way to limit the making of Sub-boxes... so that only the > system can make them and not from someone sending email outside of the > system. If it is from that Domain it will create it if not it won't. > > I want to know how many others have this happening to them... or I should > say even know that it is happening to your systems and users? > > Oh and changing the Delimiter is NOT the answer. We did it and > after a week > or so the spammers started using the new delimiter... and we had > all of our > users confused to boot. This is something I believe is serious and > annoying... Ipswitch we need a fix. > > > -- > Edgar D. Taylor > President/CEO > FIRST USA Inc. > 69500 Bannock Rd. > P.O. Box 355 > St.Clairsville, OH. 43950 > Voice: (800) 716-6190 > Fax: (740) 695-7258 > Email: ed@1st.net > Web: http://www.1st.net > -- > Simply 1st in Internet Solutions! > -- > > > > > > >