Undeliverable mail Why???

[Pete10uk]

Running SBS 2003 and set-up exchange to route all undeliverable mail to a certain user. A problem I am having is that some mail not correctly addressed is being returned. The user to receive the undeliverable mail is called brendan, he gets all his mail and any mail addressed to brendon@ but mail addressed to mail@ gets an undeliverable message.
How could this be?

 

[ShackDaddy]

Undeliverable mail" is mail that is OUTBOUND and not deliverable. It doesn't send you INBOUND mail that is to a non-existent address. If you want Brendan to get mail sent to mail@, then add that email address to his user account.

I don't know if you know what you are asking for, as far as having all misaddressed mail delivered to an account on your server. The sheer amount of spam you will get in whichever account you specify will surprise you. And when that misaddressed mail starts "sticking" to your server and not being bounced (which is the default behavior), then spammers will consider every email address in your domain a valid recipient and you will see the volume escalate rapidly....don't do it!

One thing I do (in a smaller business environment) is create email addresses for each user using all the most likely misspellings of their names. Plus addresses for anything else you might need, like nerds@ or sales@ or help@.

ShackDaddy