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[boxturt]

Greetings. I apologize in advance for the following questions but I'm just not understanding very well.

 

1) When I set up a subdomain, say guitar.boxturt.com - is my corresponding email addy supposed to be guitar@boxturt.com or somebody@guitar.boxturt.com ? I'm begining to think the latter.

 

2) I did see instructions for setting default email address as well but I'm afraid I don't quite grasp that either. I imagine once I understand question #1 I'll get this one.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

.....just a wee bit embarassed,

Boxturt

[dognamedmoses]

Boxturt, I think your right concering the "latter" but I'm not completely sure i understand your question (what is 'addy')

 

anyway, when you set up a subdomain, go back into the email manager, and you will see that you can set-up email accounts for the subdomain as well...

 

each acct you set up will go to somebody@subdomain.domain.com as you were thinking.

 

You can also set up the default acct redirect, just go into "default address"

 

your question is a great one, just remember that subdomains aren't really anything more than a great form of topical organization. They're intimidating, but they don't have to be.

[TCH-JimE]

Subdomains are worth there weight in gold.

 

Follow the above advice, and best of all, just play around and see what happens.

 

Jim

[boxturt]

Ok, thanks. I have the address ('addy') part figured for me@mysub.**** but I'm very confused about this Default Address thing. "Redirect Unrouted Mail'? Wouldn't unrouted email just bounce? Or is that exactly what :fail: and :blackhole: are for? I Do like the idea of junk stuff spiraling away into a powerful vortex though.

 

Slower Than The Average Turt,

Ty

[TCH-JimE]

Basically say I have an email address:

 

me@mydotadress.com

 

What the unrouted email option does is that if someone sent an email to an email address like

 

Docterwho@mydotaddress.com but this address does not exist, it will "reroute" the email to an specified address that does exist.

 

In this case, i suggest you set up an address called:

 

spam@mydotaddress.com and redirect all email that is not reconised there. Then its just a simple case of checking it every so often and pressing delete.

 

Jim

[boxturt]

I have done exactly that. I thank you both for your time and suggestions.

 

ty

[gabeanderson]

Something cool I just discovered about the :fail: command for unrouted mail: You can set the text after the command to anything you want. After 5 years of using the same email address and finally getting fed up with spam, I've switched to a new address in my domain and have just set up the following in the default address area of the cpanel in case any legitimate people (not spammers) email my old address:

 

>:fail: spambots be gone - people visit http://gabeanderson.com/contact to write to gabe

 

...and here's the top of the resulting bounced message:

 

>Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 spam@gabeanderson.com
   forced failure: spambots be gone - people visit
http://gabeanderson.com/contact to write to gabe

 

I think it's pretty cool.

 

-gabe

[Lianna]

Ah, Gabe! That is indeed VERY cool!

 

Thanks for sharing.

 

Lianna

[boxturt]

Terrific idea, thanks.

 

(I wouldn't have ever thought of that)

ty