How to Create a Default Email Account Print

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First of all let's set our Default or catchall email address. The default email address will "catch" any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. This article will be expecting that you are signed into your cPanel. If you are having a hard time doing that, please read the article named "How to Login to cPanel."

Scroll to the section on Mail, and just click on the Default Address link. This will bring you to a screen where you set your default email address. All emails sent to an address you have not defined will go to the email address you enter here.

Basically, your default POP address is set as your catch-all account. For instance, yourdomain.com would give you a first default address of yourdomain@yourdomain.com. In this article we are going to change this, as most people don't use their default POP accounts.

In the line with the radio button marked "Forward to email address" enter into the box the email address you want to use as the default address. Simply click the change key. Your default email address has now been set.

Click the HOME link in the upper left corner to come back to the main cPanel page. This is the last part of the article. You now know how to set your default email account catch-all so that all unrouted email that is received by your domain is sent to a specific email address. You can now exit cPanel by closing your browser, or by using the Logout button in the upper right corner. Remember, if you are using a public computer, ALWAYS Logout of cPanel before closing due to security reasons.


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