mike Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 (edited) Emails have been coming to all my hosted clients. they are mostly that old fbi.gov, cia.gov, i've to a new email address, registration confirmation,etc. Spam, viruses etc. I went into all the hosted domains and set default addresses to the :fail setting, but they are still getting them. I am also. It was my understanding that the :fail setting would bounce back any emails that weren't addressed to an actual email account under the domains. I am still getting these emails in MY mail that are address to : some non-existing email account@**** Am I missing something here? My antivirus is always up to date as is my spybot s&d and my adaware se which I run religiously. I told my clients to have everyone in their address books make sure that THEIR systems are updated and clean. Can anyone shed some light on this problem? I sent a help ticket a couple days ago but they must be busy. thanks in advance. Edited December 1, 2005 by mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 That's because it's not :fail it is :fail: Note the trailing ":" The emails you are receiving are the new sober virus emails Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyFish Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Hi Mike, I have mine set up to :fail: (notice a colon before and after the word fail) and it works fine. Above you are missing the colon after fail, is that how you have them set up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 1, 2005 Author Share Posted December 1, 2005 (edited) No. I put ":fail" only because I knew you would know what I was talking about. To be precise, I actually have: :fail:no such address here as per the "hint" in cpanel Edited December 1, 2005 by mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 1, 2005 Author Share Posted December 1, 2005 (edited) Yes, I know they are the new sober virus. I just wonder why the :fail:no such address was still letting them through. With one domain I used :blackhole: which I have now changed to just :fail: Edited December 1, 2005 by mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GroovyFish Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 The :fail: is correct. Don't add the "no such address here" part and it should work just fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 1, 2005 Author Share Posted December 1, 2005 Thanks. I will try that. I only put that in there because it was bolded along with :fail: so it appeared to be what should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prel Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Hi, Now I was with doubt !! This correct is use: ? :Fail: or :Fail: No Such Address Thank´s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted December 1, 2005 Share Posted December 1, 2005 Correct use is :fail: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 2, 2005 Author Share Posted December 2, 2005 It's working good. Too good. Now I don't get any mail. why is that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 No clue, legit email should be coming through. Open a ticket if you are still having problems and have the techs check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deverill Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 Sorry for what may be an obvious question - you can never tell what level others are at in this stuff... Do you have any email accounts or forwards set up? If not then :fail: will block them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 2, 2005 Author Share Posted December 2, 2005 (edited) Yes, Jim, I have minimum of 3 on each domain and several on my own. I removed the :fail: from my own this morning and I just got home, so I am testing a couple things. Happy Holidays to all. Edited December 2, 2005 by mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 Should I , or should I NOT be putting the :fail: command on each email recipient? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Just ":fail:" the default address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 3, 2005 Author Share Posted December 3, 2005 and for the default addresses of subdomains? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Andy Posted December 3, 2005 Share Posted December 3, 2005 Yes, and for the default address of subdomains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike Posted December 5, 2005 Author Share Posted December 5, 2005 All systems are go, men. ( heh heh ) Thanks for your help, as always. Love this TCH family. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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