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Joel and I were working on a project that had a number of business situations that the owners wanted to know about. They asked if they could get emails when these things happened. (Like a user flagged an article. Someone’s auto-renewal failed. Etc.) There were a number of mailables in the project when I joined.
I hissed. I boo’d. Joel asked me why I was being such a cranky boy.
Sometimes you want to set up a new project with a domain, but you don’t want to set up the whole email infrastructure. You could ignore the email, and hope people can track you down. Or you can add a catch all email at your domain to gather attempts from people to contact you. I opt for the second. Turns out there’s a free and easy way to do it on Cloudflare. Next steps below with screenshots.
The other day I ran into this problem where postfix insisted on delivering mail… as it was supposed to do! As it was configured! But this isn’t what I wanted. Let me explain what was happening: