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This is quite clever. I have avoided wildcards because I have not wanted to deal with the increased spam sent by bots to random (jane@ eve@) or not so random addresses (webmaster@).

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Thank you. Some people view wildcarding the domain as basically turning it into a honeypot (and using the spam to train the spam filter). I wanted to be able to provide feedback, not blowback, and rejecting at SMTP transfer time is the distinguishing factor. Yes I do eat my own dogfood, and I'm finding that I'm almost using aliases as cookies now.

It just doesn't happen, in my experience.

I have 5 different domains with catch-alls and I get 0 unsolicited emails.

I have seen it happen at companies that paste their emails everywhere, but with personal domains, it doesn't happen.

Some day your luck, or your interests, will change; maybe you'll remember this project and come back and visit us.

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