E-mail Filtering

[Don]

Am wondering how I can configure the E-Mail filter to bounce back mail addressed to a specific user, rather than show up in the catch-all. Or is there a better way to do this than using the E-Mail filter?

[TCH-Dick]

You can set up your mail so that it will bounce all e-mail that isnt sent to a valid address, but from a support standpoint we'd preffer you set it up so that e-mail sent to an invalid address is just deleted.

 

The reason being is bouncing e-mails makes the mail server work twice as hard, and if its spam e-mail you are bouncing the address it is bounced back to usually isnt good anyway so it just bounces right back to you and it just continues to bounce back and fourth.

 

Anyway, to make it bounce you would go to cpanel click on default address uinder mailand enter :fail:

 

To just delete it you would enter :blackhole: We encourage everyone to use :blackhole: rather than :fail: simply because it greatly decreases the load on the servers.

[Don]

In case someone runs across this, go here for more current changes/techniques.