How to assign an inclusive exclusive user

[jgombos]

Suppose a tag suddenly begins to traffic important messages, and I want all messages forwarded. One example would be using job.z.acct@xoxy.net to apply for jobs. Once I have had held a job for a few weeks, mail to that address becomes useless, so I let the blackhole eat the junk. But when between jobs, I want that address to forward everything from everyone.

I have tried setting the exclusive sender to "*" to pass everything through, but it doesn't work.

Job searching is just one example. There are other cases where a disposable address becomes more important than I had originally envisioned, and I want everything to be forwarded.

Sometimes I even know in advance that the recipient (or group thereof) of an address is trustworthy enough not to subject their flow to a counter/blackhole, but I still want them to have a custom address without opening a seperate email account. In these cases the best solution is to make the most popular sender exclusive, and then periodically monitor and refill that record.

[SysKoll]

Put the disposable address itself as the exclusive sender. See the FAQ. This wil let through all messages sent to that disposable.

Don't leave it there for ever, though!

[jgombos]

Put the disposable address itself as the exclusive sender. See the FAQ. This wil let through all messages sent to that disposable.

Don't leave it there for ever, though!

Good to know. I read the faq but missed that part.

Now suppose I distribute these addresses:

tag.companyA.user@xoxy.
tag.companyB.user@xoxy.
tag.companyC.user@xoxy.

since each to address is modified, is there any way to accomplish the same thing?

Edit by Syskoll: neutered the email addresses so that we won't get them scrapped by an address bot.

[SysKoll]

Don't use the company name as the word. Do it the other way around. For example, companyname.tag.account@sg.

This gives you a different disposable for each company. You can now selectively remove the counting on each address, as explained, by making the exclusive sender the same as the disposable. Remove the exclusive sender if/when the company starts spamming.

You caneven bring up all the tagged addresses on the same web page by doing a search on "tag" in the advanced tab. This lets you do a one-stop management.

[bbschad]

Put the disposable address itself as the exclusive sender. See the FAQ. This wil let through all messages sent to that disposable.

Don't leave it there for ever, though!

This (at least) is not in the German FAQ. Is there an active maintainer for this?

[SysKoll]

This (at least) is not in the German FAQ. Is there an active maintainer for this?

Ich weiss nicht.

[bbschad]

This (at least) is not in the German FAQ. Is there an active maintainer for this?

Ich weiss nicht.

Do you need one?

[josh]

Do you need one?

Both of the German translators have expressed an interest in and willingness to keep the translation up to date -- my practice has been to bug Michael H, because Jochen did so very much work in the beginning. Michael is extremely responsive when there's a change -- the fault is mine for not staying on top of all the changes. That said, if you have some specific language for the exclusive sender thing, I'd be happy to slap it in.