Is there a good easy way to discard emails not sent to certain email address's

[_Chris_]

Can anyone please let me know how you configure Spamassassin, so that it would allow through emails sent to a few certain email address's, but discard all other emails please ? I have googled and can't seem to find the solution to this particular scenario.

Or maybe there's another way at server level, to do the same thing, but not necessarily through SA ?

Any help much appreciated.

Chris.

[NickJ]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Can anyone please let me know how you configure Spamassassin, so that it would allow through emails sent to a few certain email address's, but discard all other emails please ? I have googled and can't seem to find the solution to this particular scenario.

Or maybe there's another way at server level, to do the same thing, but not necessarily through SA ?

Any help much appreciated.

Chris.

You need to configure whitelist and black list accordingly via your Spamassassin configuration.

[_Chris_]

Many thanks Nick, but that seems to relate to the senders email address, this scenario is for the recipients email address.

I did think about having the default email set to fail, and then setting up an email account for all 15 email address's, which I guess would work, but I imagine, that I would then have to setup 15 email accounts in my email client ? ? and then every time it checked for emails, it would then have to check all 15 ? ? ;-(

Is SpamAssassin the best way to do this ? How do the others here handle the same scenario ?

[NickJ]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Many thanks Nick, but that seems to relate to the senders email address, this scenario is for the recipients email address.

I did think about having the default email set to fail, and then setting up an email account for all 15 email address's, which I guess would work, but I imagine, that I would then have to setup 15 email accounts in my email client ? ? and then every time it checked for emails, it would then have to check all 15 ? ? ;-(

Is SpamAssassin the best way to do this ? How do the others here handle the same scenario ?

Yes, in this case you need to add all valid email address under your domain and then configure it under your mail client. You can enable auto check for new emails if you mail client support this feature.
If you set the default/catch all email address to :fail:, then all unrouted emails will never enter into system and will get bounced back.

[_Chris_]

Originally Posted by NickJ

Yes, in this case you need to add all valid email address under your domain and then configure it under your mail client. You can enable auto check for new emails if you mail client support this feature.
If you set the default/catch all email address to :fail:, then all unrouted emails will never enter into system and will get bounced back.

That's what I thought the process would be. The email accounts may get up to 30-40 in the near future, and I really don't want the email client checking all 40 accounts every few minutes, as well as all the other domains.

Any other ways of solving this at all ?

In SA, is there any way of whitelisting the recipients em address and fail with message for all others please ?

[DavidAllen]

To avoid having to check 30-40 email address every time - why not just set the mails to all to forward to one of them - go to account level filtering in cpanel and greate a filter to forward all previously undelivered mail to the 'master' account.
That way the 30-40 people can send emails from their 'own' email address but all mails to them get sent to the one account.

[_Chris_]

Originally Posted by DavidAllen

To avoid having to check 30-40 email address every time - why not just set the mails to all to forward to one of them - go to account level filtering in cpanel and greate a filter to forward all previously undelivered mail to the 'master' account.
That way the 30-40 people can send emails from their 'own' email address but all mails to them get sent to the one account.

Many thanks David. I'll give that a try, but is it also possible, on the same account, to set to fail with message for any emails sent to anything other than the legit 30-40 email address's ?

Chris

[DavidAllen]

yes - just create the email addresses in cpanel - then set the catchall to 'fail'

[_Chris_]

Just been trying this and notice that the emails are copied over to the forward email address - is there any way of moving them ? The mailbox's will soon get full up otherwise.

Chris.

[eUKhost.com]

Originally Posted by _Chris_

Just been trying this and notice that the emails are copied over to the forward email address - is there any way of moving them ? The mailbox's will soon get full up otherwise.

Chris.

Hello Chris,

There's no need to setup mailboxes for all individual email accounts which you want to forward to a particular mailbox. If you set forwarder for a specific email address then there's no need to create that mailbox unless you need a copy of those emails within a specific mailbox.

[_Chris_]

Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

Hello Chris,

There's no need to setup mailboxes for all individual email accounts which you want to forward to a particular mailbox. If you set forwarder for a specific email address then there's no need to create that mailbox unless you need a copy of those emails within a specific mailbox.

Perfect - that's solved the problem and the helps been very much appreciated.

Chris.

[_Chris_]

Originally Posted by eUKhost.com

Hello Chris,

There's no need to setup mailboxes for all individual email accounts which you want to forward to a particular mailbox. If you set forwarder for a specific email address then there's no need to create that mailbox unless you need a copy of those emails within a specific mailbox.

Hi, (sorry, don't know your name), would that still work, if you had all unrouted email set to fail please ?

[jc8654]

If you create a forwarder, it becomes a valid email address so anything send to that email will then be forwarded to the email address/mailbox you told it to go to.