[afnog] Misspelled e-mail addresses

[Joe Abley]

On 8-Jul-2006, at 07:54, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:39:28PM +0200,
>  Antonio Godinho <antonio at uem.mz> wrote
>  a message of 15 lines which said:
>
>> Does anyone know of a way to accept misspelled addresses to the
>> right addresses which are a close match in postfix?
>
> This is a very bad idea: you would not want a message to be delivered
> to the wrong person, if there is a mispelling. (Just imagine two
> colleagues with similar names.)

The other reason today not to do such things is that you'll fall  
victim to dictionary attacks by spammers. The effect might not be so  
bad as if you allowed all mail to be delivered to a default mailbox,  
but it'd very probably be worse than just insisting that people get  
addresses right in the first place.


Joe