How to disable catch-all E-Mail.

Last Updated: November 30, 1999

This tutorial will show you how to disable the cathc-all e-mail that cPanel comes with standard. Standard the catch-all is cpanel-login-name@domain-name.com
Example: dedicat@dedicated-resources.com

Normally these E-Mails catch a lot of spam, and trash so disabling them could help, but it could also let some e-mails you need not get delivered. (Only in the case someone typed in the wrong address, if the write address is used everything will be fine.)

Catch-All is for *@domain.com if another account is not configured.

Doing the following will still deliver mail to all the accounts, it just wont catch mail to a non-existant account or mis-spelledone.

1. Log into cPanel for the account you wish to modify.
http://www.yourdomain.comc/cpanel

2. Click on the "Mail" icon, it is in top left for cPanel X theme.

3. Click on "Default Address"

4. Click on " et Default Address" (At bottom of page)

5. Now you see a text box to enter the location, and you see.
"Hint: You can enter :blackhole: to discard all incoming unrouted mail or :fail: no such address here to bounce it."

:blackhole: Will discard all e-mail, and :fail" will bounce it back to sender saying no such address. I suggest blackhole because a lot of failures will result in a huge mail que.

That's it!