The default email address interface in your cPanel account allows you to set up a default address (catch-all address) that receives any mail for an invalid email address for the domain. It is also known as “catch-alls.” With a Default, Address enabled, cPanel routes any email sent to a non-existing address at your domain name to the account’s Default Address. For example, if your Default Address is deafult@example.com and someone emails a non-existent address, test@example.com, cPanel forwards the email to deafult@example.com. Internet Server and most other hosts will disable the default e-mail setting as this address can attract a lot of spam. Changing your default email account is an easy process. To do this, please follow the below-given steps:
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Login to your cPanel account.
- Navigate to the ‘Email’ section.
- Click on the icon ‘Default Address’ from the ‘Email’ section.
- A new window will open and here you can define how the default address handles incoming messages.
- Select the domain for which you wish to set a default address.
- Discard the email while your server processes it by SMTP time with an error message:
You can select this option to send an error message to the sender. Enter an error message in the Failure Message text box and that message will be sent to the sender address.
