Email Options

Catch All or Default email address

The default or CatchAll address is the one, to which all e-mails, addressed to a non-available or mistakenly entered email account at your domain name are routed to. In case someone sends an email to info@yourdomain.com and you do not have such an address, the Catch all option will forward this email to your default email address.

How to set Catch All or Default email address

To set a default email, please login to your control panel and click the Mail icon. Click Default Address. Select Set Default Address, and in the space provided type in an e-mail box to which all unrouted messages should go. Click Change to apply your settings. Initially the default email address is set to your cpanel_username@yourdomain.com.

Please check the default email from time to time to ensure that it is not filled up with needed/unneeded messages.

Changing your default email address

The default email address will "catch" any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. All mail that is sent to an address that does not exist will go to the default email address.

Step 1: To access the Mail Menu, click on the icon above the word Mail on the main screen of your cPanel interface.

Step 2: Click on default address.

Step 3: To change your default address, click on Set Default Address.

Step 4: Enter the new default email address in the blank field next to your domain name.

Step 5: Click on Change to change the default email address.

If you wish to have invalid emails send an error back to their sender, use: fail: as the new default address. If you wish to have invalid emails disappear, use: blackhole: as the new default address.