Setting up Default E-mail Accounts

You will notice that a "Main Account", e-mail account has been set up by default when your hosting account was created. This account is set up as a "catch all account" by default and will receive all e-mail addressed to any name ending with @yourdomain, effectively giving you an unlimited number of addresses ending in @yourdomain. You should check this account regularly if you decide to use it as the catch all account.

You can also set one of your other email accounts to be the "catch all" account or you can simply set the default mail account to discard or bounce all un-routed mail to try and avoid spam if you don't require a catch all account. If a catch all account is not setup however, any emails sent to addresses ending in your domain name which have not been sent to a valid address, will accumulate in the general storage space in your account.

Note: You need to set up a default mail account for each domain you have parked if you are using multiple domain names.

 

To set up default e-mail:

  1. Type www dot + yourdomain/cpanel into your web browser and then enter user name and password when requested to access your control panel.

                                                 eg: www.yourdomain.com/cpanel

  1. In your control panel, click the Mail Icon.

 

  1. Click the Default Address link.

  1. Click the Set Default Address link.

  1. Select appropriate domain (if more that one domain) and type in one of the following four options and then click the Change button:

:fail: no such address (this will bounce all un-routed mail - My preferred)

:blackhole: (this will discard all un-routed mail)

account user name (eg yourdoma - this will send all un-routed mail to default account - check mail regularly)

another POP email account - (eg:bob@yourdomain.com - this will send all un-routed mail to this account)

  1. A confirmation screen will appear. Click Go Back and view changes. Repeat process for all domains (if you have more than one) associated with hosing account.

 

 

  1. Default Address Maintenance screen should look similar to below when finished.

 

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