On Fri, 8 Apr 2022 16:25:22 +0100 steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
unlimited email addresses, for any number of users along the form of
user@mydomaim.co.uk and user-anysuffix@mydomain.co.uk [...] What do people use for email? Presumably most use their ISP. Does any company offer something similar to what I've currently got that's affordable?
I expect a dwindling number might. Whether it's affordable depends on how deep your pockets are!
The reason why cheaper ISPs don't like automatic aliases like that is that spammers are very very stupid and soon start trying to send to user and user-anysuffix and user-anothersuffix and so on and so forth. Even if you detect them as spam (either through a filter or honeypot suffix) and then block the sending server after too many failures, it still all can add up to significant extra resources because there are so many very very stupid spammers out there, with a special mention to the lovely ones who use the big free webmail providers to send some of it out. Those big free webmail providers really don't like it if you block their servers, either!
Until earlier this year, I still had one domain with a wildcard alias (so anything@domain would get delivered to a mailbox) but it's just not sustainable any more, so that's gone. Sorry I can't offer a solution: only sympathy.
Regards,