[freeside-users] Domains and catchalls

[Stuart Craig]

Thanks for answering my last question Dave.  We do add customers to two 
of our three primary domains, and it looks like we'll be using the third 
soon as well.

Next question...  I tried to set a fixed catchall of "error:nouser 550 
User Unknown" on one of our primary domains, but when I try to provision 
that domain, I get:

Error: Illegal (numeric) catchall: error:nouser 550 User Unknown

Examining the svc_domain table, I see catchall is defined as an 
integer... so maybe I don't understand what it's really used for.  Is it 
used as an index into another table?  I thought it was a place to store 
the domain catchall email address, and we require that the catchall for 
all domains be the error message above.  We implemented that policy a 
couple of years ago after a few incidents where spammers made dictionary 
attacks against customer domains and stuffed 10s of thousands of spam 
emails into a single mailbox.

At this point, I'm just trying to fumble my way through the setup far 
enough to get FreeSide to provision a basic dialup account and launch a 
couple of exports (one to LDAP, one using SSH).  This is mostly for 
proof of concept, and so I can setup a bit of a demo for other folks in 
the office here.  It's also a learning experience for me, of course.

Thanks,
  - Stu

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Stuart Craig <scraig at spiritone.com>
Technical Director for SpiritOne