surefire Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 Hello all, Question: Can I use my chosen default email address (username@mysite.com) as a catch-all for emails or do I have to set up individual accounts for each email address? My assumption is that if someone sends the following emails: test@mysite.com anything@mysite.com sales@mysite.com Then I should be able to receive these emails through my correctly configured email client... right? Quote
leezard Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 in cpanel theres a option for default address, you can specify any account you want as your catch all account this is what it looks like in cpanel Change Default Address Send all unrouted mail for______________ to:____________ Hint: You can enter :blackhole: to discard all incoming unrouted mail, or :fail: no such address here to bounce it. Quote
Lianna Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 Surefire, If you create no email accounts AND you set the Default to username@****** THEN all email sent to anyone@****** will arrive in the username@****** mailbox. Quote
leezard Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 I have about 15-20 e-mail accounts set up, and have all unrouted mail go to my main account mike@x-trememodz.com Quote
surefire Posted June 13, 2003 Author Posted June 13, 2003 Thanks guys. The reason I ask such a silly question is that one of my sites is bouncing back emails. It's really strange because none of my other TCH sites do it. And I've been troubleshooting this all night. Rick is helping me with the support ticket... I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy or maybe that just posting would jog my brain. Quote
Lianna Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 leezard, Sorry, I guess I read too much into the original request.... I though he wanted ANY and ALL emails sent just into the one address. If that is the case then set up no additional email accounts and set the default to the main account username. If not, then set up the email accounts that should have their own mailboxes, then set the default to the main account username and all email that is addressed to an account that does not exist will be sent to the default. Whew. Quote
leezard Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 hmmm, now that i re read his first post maybe you were right Quote
Lianna Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 Thanks guys. The reason I ask such a silly question is that one of my sites is bouncing back emails. It's really strange because none of my other TCH sites do it. And I've been troubleshooting this all night. Rick is helping me with the support ticket... I just wanted to make sure I wasn't going crazy or maybe that just posting would jog my brain. AH. See if the .filter file exists in the home directory. If so, then rename it or delete it. I've seen this before...I think Quote
surefire Posted June 13, 2003 Author Posted June 13, 2003 Let me clarify... I have not set up any email accounts on any of my sites at tch. I set up Outlook to grab email from TCH accounts using main username and password. This works perfectly well on all my sites but one... and it's not how I set up Outlook. Some of the mail comes through... and some gets bounced. It's weird. Quote
Head Guru Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 are specific email address's being bounced? or it random?? Quote
surefire Posted June 13, 2003 Author Posted June 13, 2003 Appears to be random. Here are more details: Two sites... both at TCH mysite-one.com mysite-two.com I have two scripts on mysite-one.com that are getting emails bounced back from mysite-two.com. One uses the mail function, the other uses a more complex script that uses smtp to send the email. Both are getting email bounced back... but not 100% of the time, more like 95%. I have troubleshooted the problem by having the script send three emails: one to an isp related personal account I have, one to mysite-three.com (another tCH account), and one to mysite-two.com Consistently, mysite-two.com bounces back. It's weird... very weird. I even got a bounce back when I sent an email straight from my isp account to the anything@mysite-two.com Originally, when all this started, I thought there was an issue with the mail() function because I notice that it takes a pretty long time for the mail to reach the destination. But sending via smtp is almost instantaneous. So when I plugged in this script (which I use a LOT), and it didn't work.. I was surprised. The more I experiement, the more I believe there is an issue with email at this one account. I'm sure Rick or someone at TCH will solve it. Quote
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