When using catch-all for email, how to „turn off“ one address?

[necrevistonnezr]

I use catch-all in email settings basically for creating arbitrary addresses for certain websites (e.g. as supported in Bitwarden).

One address under my domain (that I never created) receives like 90 % of all spam. Can I turn off such an address under these circumstances?

I read into Spamassassin rules, but I believe when blacklisting (e.g. byblacklist_to foo@domain.com), it will only marked as spam. I would like to not even reach any inbox but just get rejected…

[timconsidine]

@necrevistonnezr make a sieve rule to reject incoming to that address ?

[robi]

I wonder if a reject all mailbox can be configured, which can then have added aliases.

[necrevistonnezr]

@timconsidine
Thanks. I don't see a "reject" rule in Roundcube, but a "discard with message" - I assume that's the same?
And are those sieve rules processed before or after the spam filter?

[timconsidine]

@necrevistonnezr not sure about Roundcube as I moved over to SnappyMail, but I think it is similar.
Under Filters you can add a sieve script (maybe they call it 'custom')

And yes I think discard with message is equivalent. But not an expert.

Due to the excellent spamassassin rules posted here https://forum.cloudron.io/post/30512 by @d19dotca, I am not needing to use sieve in SnappyMail. But here is the script which I use in Protonmail. The from can be changed to to I guess.

NB : I put the reject part of the rule before the spam test. Arguably I should have a return after the reject - not sure why I did not do that.

require ["include", "environment", "variables", "relational", "comparator-i;ascii-numeric", "spamtest", "reject", "fileinto", "imap4flags"];

if address :contains "from" ["spammer@blah.co.uk",  "spammer.com"]
{
  reject "Spam";
}

if spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "5" {
    fileinto "spam";
}

if exists "list-unsubscribe"
{
    addflag "\\List";
}

# Generated: Do not run this script on spam messages
if allof (environment :matches "vnd.proton.spam-threshold" "*",
spamtest :value "ge" :comparator "i;ascii-numeric" "${1}")
{
    return;
}