danceswithscissors Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 I was surfing around my CPanel tonight, clicking on things just to peek around, and went into an area marked email. I purposely never set up email accounts with any of my domains because I don't want the extra spam. One of my domains has an email area with over 1800 emails in there. They're just garbage spam, but ... how did that happen if I never set up an email account? Should I go in and delete it all or just ignore it? Can I stop the email from collecting? I don't want to fill up a TCH server with something I never use or even check on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 you automatically get a default email address when you sign up, cpanel username@domain.com. Spamers send to anything they can try at your domain and some make to this mailbox. You can delete them. You can also create a rule that blackholes anything sent to that address. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceswithscissors Posted May 13, 2004 Author Share Posted May 13, 2004 I guess sitting here hollering bad words isn't a strong enough rule so I'll go figure that one out. Thank you Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rick Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 If you don't want any mail delievered to the domain you can set the default address to :blackhole: (don't forget the colons at the beginning and end.) This will delete any email sent to any address that you have not specifically set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danceswithscissors Posted May 13, 2004 Author Share Posted May 13, 2004 Thank you Rick, I set that for both my accounts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeJ Posted May 13, 2004 Share Posted May 13, 2004 (edited) Spamers send to anything they can try at your domain and some make to this mailbox. If you don't want any mail delievered to the domain you can set the default address to :blackhole: (don't forget the colons at the beginning and end.) Just to clarify (as Rick eluded to) why you can get 1800 emails... when your account is created, by default it will accept email to any address (*@example.com) sent to your domain and won't or delete anything... hence the reason :blackhole: for your catchall is a good idea. Edited May 13, 2004 by TCH-MikeJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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