Does anyone know how I can set up a email forwarder,
that will "CATCH" all email going to one domain, then
sent it to another email account?
I know how to set up one forwarder, but I need a
"catch all" and can't figure how to do it in cPanel.
Thanks for any replies.
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Please visit http://www.cpanel.net/docs/cp/Mail.htm
"Forwarders"
"Forwarders"
Catch All Default eMail in cPanel Tutorial
Just a note: I set the "DEFAULT" address in email of cPanel for subdomains and domains to fail: no such address here to bounce back all the spam certain
sites I have that were beng flooded daily....Just wanted to pass this on....
Just a note: I set the "DEFAULT" address in email of cPanel for subdomains and domains to fail: no such address here to bounce back all the spam certain
sites I have that were beng flooded daily....Just wanted to pass this on....
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It appears pretty simple, but read through this documentation,
as this controls much more that you'd
expect. As mentioned in the previous chapter, your "default email
address" is the one, which can be used as a "catch all", or in other words,
to "catch all mail", which is addressed to anything@yourdomain.com. Using
a catch all can be a blessing and sometimes a curse. The "catch all" is
excellent if you have a high frequency of people whom mistype your email
address, as these addresses (even though mistyped), will simply be
bounced to your "catch all" or "default" email account. That is, providing
they at least managed to spell your domain name properly
If you're not planning on using multiple "private email boxes", then you
can keep life very simple - just configure the default email address in your
mail reader and leave it at that. This way, you'll receive everything sent
to your domain. There are indeed pro's and con's to this method, which
will be discussed in this tutorial.
Setting your default/catch all email account:
Note: By default, or until you change it, the default email address will be
the same as your "login name."
1. Login to C-Panel
2. Select "Default Address"
3. Select "Set Default Email Address"
4. Enter a desired default email address
Just enter a name, (the @yourdomain part is added automatically)
Select "Change" and you'll see a confirmation box, which displays your
new default email address. That's it- done!
Remember: In order to receive mail, which finds its way into your "Default
Mailbox", you must configure the default address in your mail reader.
If you don't, then all mail, which bounces to this address will sit on the
server unread. This is easy to do in Outlook Express, as it allows you
to configure and monitor multiple email accounts. Email readers such
as Netscape on the other hand, are limited to "one" email account. Actually,
you could re-configure your mail reader to check your default email box
every few days, but who wants to be bothered with that trouble? We
suggest using an email reader, which allows you to configure multiple
email accounts.
The Webmail Alternative: You can also check your default email account,
or another other mail account by logging into it through the "WebMail"
interface. Simply select the "WebMail" icon at the bottom of C-panel,
and log in to it using your "Main Account" Username and Password.
This will allow to to check your default email box, as well as other
mailboxes without having to configure them in your mail reader. In
fact, using any pop accounts "Username and Password" will log you
into that particular account through the "WebMail" interface.
The downside of enabling "Catch All"
Problems can sometimes arise when Spammers or junk mailers use
this feature as a means to pump their trash into your mailbox. As long
as the "catch all" is enabled, then all they must do is send to whatever@yourdomain.com and it will reach you.
On the other hand, if you're using "specific pop email accounts", you
could opt to disable the "catch all", which would mean that "only visitors
or associates who you've given a specific address to" can send mail to
a particular email account on your domain.
In this case, everything else, (that you have not configured as a pop
mail account) is bounced back to the sender. In our opinion, we suggest
leaving your "catch all" enabled for the time being. If Spammers begin
sending random junk messages using anything@yourdomain.com, then
you can disable your "catch all" feature.
Disabling your "Catch All Feature"
Instead of entering a (syntax legal name), use illegal syntax, which will
effectively disable your email "catch all." For example, using characters,
which are known as 'illegal' to the email system such as (>>>????) will
work just fine. These are characters, which cannot be used in an email
address, which in effect, will render the "Catch All" feature useless. Go
to your "change default email address" and add something like the above
as default name.
What happens now?
When Spammy or Jimmy junk mailer attempts to use a random email
address to Spam you, it will be bounced back to them. That is, unless
they happen to get a hold of one of your "legitimate pop email account
names", in which case, you'd have a different problem on your hands.
Yes, you could either deal with it, or change the address.
Here is what now happens to a sender using anything@yourdomain.com :
This is what the sender would receive. Please note that a classic, but
annoying junk mail example is being used here:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its
recipients after more than 24 hours on the queue on yourdomain.com.
The message identifier is: 14m7gv-0007gl-00
The date of the message is: Mon, 04 June 2001 01:23:02 -0400
The subject of the message is: MAKE MILLIONS FAST!
The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:
anything@yourdomain.com
Delay reason: error in alias file /etc/valiases/anything@yourdomain.com:
missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<")
in "******>>>" (Bad email syntax)
No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for
some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message
remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up,
and when that happens, the message will be returned to you.
So what actually happened here?
When the "Catch All" email address (******>>>@yourdomain.com),
attempted to process an incoming message from anything@yourdomain.com,
and then forward the (junk message in this case) to the "catch all/Default"
email address, it freaked out, and said forget it!! The default email address
was set to ******>>> in this case, which is clearly an email address using
"illegal characters", so the sending process was aborted. Therefore, the mail system bounced back the above error message to the sender.
There are numerous tricks and special recipes you can 'manually' write
into the Unix
email system for doing essentially the same thing, however
through CPanel, this would certainly seem the easiest way of accomplishing
the task.
as this controls much more that you'd
expect. As mentioned in the previous chapter, your "default email
address" is the one, which can be used as a "catch all", or in other words,
to "catch all mail", which is addressed to anything@yourdomain.com. Using
a catch all can be a blessing and sometimes a curse. The "catch all" is
excellent if you have a high frequency of people whom mistype your email
address, as these addresses (even though mistyped), will simply be
bounced to your "catch all" or "default" email account. That is, providing
they at least managed to spell your domain name properly
If you're not planning on using multiple "private email boxes", then you
can keep life very simple - just configure the default email address in your
mail reader and leave it at that. This way, you'll receive everything sent
to your domain. There are indeed pro's and con's to this method, which
will be discussed in this tutorial.
Setting your default/catch all email account:
Note: By default, or until you change it, the default email address will be
the same as your "login name."
1. Login to C-Panel
2. Select "Default Address"
3. Select "Set Default Email Address"
4. Enter a desired default email address
Just enter a name, (the @yourdomain part is added automatically)
Select "Change" and you'll see a confirmation box, which displays your
new default email address. That's it- done!
Remember: In order to receive mail, which finds its way into your "Default
Mailbox", you must configure the default address in your mail reader.
If you don't, then all mail, which bounces to this address will sit on the
server unread. This is easy to do in Outlook Express, as it allows you
to configure and monitor multiple email accounts. Email readers such
as Netscape on the other hand, are limited to "one" email account. Actually,
you could re-configure your mail reader to check your default email box
every few days, but who wants to be bothered with that trouble? We
suggest using an email reader, which allows you to configure multiple
email accounts.
The Webmail Alternative: You can also check your default email account,
or another other mail account by logging into it through the "WebMail"
interface. Simply select the "WebMail" icon at the bottom of C-panel,
and log in to it using your "Main Account" Username and Password.
This will allow to to check your default email box, as well as other
mailboxes without having to configure them in your mail reader. In
fact, using any pop accounts "Username and Password" will log you
into that particular account through the "WebMail" interface.
The downside of enabling "Catch All"
Problems can sometimes arise when Spammers or junk mailers use
this feature as a means to pump their trash into your mailbox. As long
as the "catch all" is enabled, then all they must do is send to whatever@yourdomain.com and it will reach you.
On the other hand, if you're using "specific pop email accounts", you
could opt to disable the "catch all", which would mean that "only visitors
or associates who you've given a specific address to" can send mail to
a particular email account on your domain.
In this case, everything else, (that you have not configured as a pop
mail account) is bounced back to the sender. In our opinion, we suggest
leaving your "catch all" enabled for the time being. If Spammers begin
sending random junk messages using anything@yourdomain.com, then
you can disable your "catch all" feature.
Disabling your "Catch All Feature"
Instead of entering a (syntax legal name), use illegal syntax, which will
effectively disable your email "catch all." For example, using characters,
which are known as 'illegal' to the email system such as (>>>????) will
work just fine. These are characters, which cannot be used in an email
address, which in effect, will render the "Catch All" feature useless. Go
to your "change default email address" and add something like the above
as default name.
What happens now?
When Spammy or Jimmy junk mailer attempts to use a random email
address to Spam you, it will be bounced back to them. That is, unless
they happen to get a hold of one of your "legitimate pop email account
names", in which case, you'd have a different problem on your hands.
Yes, you could either deal with it, or change the address.
Here is what now happens to a sender using anything@yourdomain.com :
This is what the sender would receive. Please note that a classic, but
annoying junk mail example is being used here:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
A message that you sent has not yet been delivered to one or more of its
recipients after more than 24 hours on the queue on yourdomain.com.
The message identifier is: 14m7gv-0007gl-00
The date of the message is: Mon, 04 June 2001 01:23:02 -0400
The subject of the message is: MAKE MILLIONS FAST!
The address to which the message has not yet been delivered is:
anything@yourdomain.com
Delay reason: error in alias file /etc/valiases/anything@yourdomain.com:
missing or malformed local part (expected word or "<")
in "******>>>" (Bad email syntax)
No action is required on your part. Delivery attempts will continue for
some time, and this warning may be repeated at intervals if the message
remains undelivered. Eventually the mail delivery software will give up,
and when that happens, the message will be returned to you.
So what actually happened here?
When the "Catch All" email address (******>>>@yourdomain.com),
attempted to process an incoming message from anything@yourdomain.com,
and then forward the (junk message in this case) to the "catch all/Default"
email address, it freaked out, and said forget it!! The default email address
was set to ******>>> in this case, which is clearly an email address using
"illegal characters", so the sending process was aborted. Therefore, the mail system bounced back the above error message to the sender.
There are numerous tricks and special recipes you can 'manually' write
into the Unix
email system for doing essentially the same thing, however
through CPanel, this would certainly seem the easiest way of accomplishing
the task.
As I can see now I didn't understand you at your first post.
Unfortunately, CPanel don't provide Catch-All Forwarders.
Also we don't have Jaguar server installed so we can't do this for you.
Unfortunately, CPanel don't provide Catch-All Forwarders.
Also we don't have Jaguar server installed so we can't do this for you.
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