automatic creation of an info@ alias in case of message authentication failure/improper forwarding? #594
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Last week I've received an email (that is clearly spam) to an alias of a custom domain that I hadn't created myself: "info@customdomain" In the anonaddy dashboard, the alias shows as creation date the date I've received the email - but I surely hadn't created it. Is this something anonaddy does automatically in case of authentication failure/improper forwarding? Or do I need to worry that my account has been hacked? |
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Hi there, This is simply because you have catch-all enabled for your custom domain (it's enabled by default when you add a custom domain to addy.io). This means that any alias will be created automatically (on-the-fly) as soon as it receives its first email. So some spammer or bot just sent an email to a commonly used local part (info) for your domain and it was created automatically. Your account has not been hacked. You can turn off catch-all for your domain from the domains page (https://app.addy.io/domains) by turning the toggle switch to OFF. Then your domain will only forward messages for aliases that already exist. |
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Right, makes sense. Thanks a ton |
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Hi there,
This is simply because you have catch-all enabled for your custom domain (it's enabled by default when you add a custom domain to addy.io). This means that any alias will be created automatically (on-the-fly) as soon as it receives its first email.
So some spammer or bot just sent an email to a commonly used local part (info) for your domain and it was created automatically. Your account has not been hacked.
You can turn off catch-all for your domain from the domains page (https://app.addy.io/domains) by turning the toggle switch to OFF. Then your domain will only forward messages for aliases that already exist.