Catchalls and SpamAssassin

[sandheep]

Hello--

I am considering transferring some of my domains to Hostgator. Can you advise whether I can do the following at Hostgator?

1. Have a catchall e-mail address
2. Have all e-mail get tagged by SpamAssassin (just tagged, not deleted)
3. After tagging, forward e-mail to a 3rd party (yahoo) e-mail account?

If this is possible, is the configuration straightforward, or am I going to have to write all sorts of procmail and EXIM scripts/filters?

I am aware of the problems with catchall accounts. As a result, I am looking for an alternative for down the road. Can you tell me:

1. Is there a way to script the creation of e-mail forwarders (or must it be done via cpanel)? More specifically, is the file that contains the list of e-mail forwarders available for write access outside of Cpanel?

2. Does Hostgator offer "plus" e-mail addresses? E.g. me+[any string]@mydomain.com where "any string" need not be pre-defined.

Also, do you assist in site migration (would be great if I didn't have to down/upload all the sites).

Many thanks,

Sandheep
Hopeful Hostgator customer

[riostyles]

Originally Posted by sandheep

Hello--

I am considering transferring some of my domains to Hostgator. Can you advise whether I can do the following at Hostgator?

Hello and welcome sandheep
If not specified, my case for ex, we are HG users and not HG staff.

1. Have a catchall e-mail address

Yes all the accounts

2. Have all e-mail get tagged by SpamAssassin (just tagged, not deleted)

That's the default setting, after you can filter as you want, this a regular SA option

3. After tagging, forward e-mail to a 3rd party (yahoo) e-mail account?

I do not recommand the forwarding oh these tagged mails. You can look yourself as a spammer by yahoo in your ex. Technically it is simple to set-up

If this is possible, is the configuration straightforward, or am I going to have to write all sorts of procmail and EXIM scripts/filters?

All the features and more are easy to edit in cpanel

I am aware of the problems with catchall accounts. As a result, I am looking for an alternative for down the road. Can you tell me:

1. Is there a way to script the creation of e-mail forwarders (or must it be done via cpanel)? More specifically, is the file that contains the list of e-mail forwarders available for write access outside of Cpanel?

Yes very easy, you can forward account per account even and better without creating the mailbox. You can also simply in one edit forward (Or re-route without SpamAssassin) the whole domain to any internal or external mail account.

2. Does Hostgator offer "plus" e-mail addresses? E.g. me+[any string]@mydomain.com where "any string" need not be pre-defined.

This point is unclear to me. You can have john.doe@yourdomain.tld, johndoe@your... john-doe@..., john_doe@... The signe plus "+" and "#" are reserved as the at sign "@" and only alpha/ numerical signes aren allowed including "." "-" "_".

Also, do you assist in site migration (would be great if I didn't have to down/upload all the sites).

Yes they will, for shared I do not remember me how many, for reseller or so called, 20 domains at the opening and during one month.

I suggest you to simply sumbit all this per email to sales@hostgator.com so you will have an official position as part of your deal. Let them 1 day or some for to go trough all the services concerned.

Anytime welcome here, don't hesitate, come back for any question.

[gtgeorge]

Originally Posted by sandheep

Hello--

I am considering transferring some of my domains to Hostgator. Can you advise whether I can do the following at Hostgator?

1. Have a catchall e-mail address

Welcome,

Might want to view this sticky for the complete answer to catchall
http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?t=15053

[sandheep]

Thanks for your feed back, everyone.

Sandheep