Setting Up A Catch-All Email Address In CPanel
You can use this article to set up a "catch-all" email address that will always accept and store any email coming into an account.
- Point your browser to www.yourdomain.com/cpanel.
- If any security certificate alerts pop up, you can safely accept these. Our servers use a self-generated security certificate which keeps the data from the control panel secure when you visit it.
- Login to the control panel using your username and password supplied to you at sign up.
- Click the 'Mail' option, which is the very first icon.
- Click the 'Default Address' link on the Mail Manager menu.
- Click 'Set Default Address' at the bottom of the page.
- Here is where we will choose what your catch-all email address will be. Choose the domain you want to redirect email from and then type in a real email address. It's important that you use a valid email here, otherwise the mail will be lost.
- Click 'Change' to save your catch-all.
- Now any mail that comes to your server that is destined for an address that doesn't exist will still be delivered to your chosen address.
Note: We discourage the use of catch-all email addresses. You can become the victim of a spammer if you use a catch-all address. Spammers send out what are called 'dictionary attacks' sometimes, which means they send email to your domain for common names. Hundreds of them. bob@, sally@, rico@... And if you have a catch-all email address, the end result is that all of them get delivered. It can be a real pain.
Before you set up a catch all email address please read this article about why you should simply set this to :fail: or risk getting spammed.