Default / Catch-All Address
Written by Brad MarkleBy design, the catch-all is set to :fail: in order to prevent spammers from sending large amounts of unwanted mail to you. Our newer servers no longer allow you to set your own default address to prevent spam overflow, so we recommend using forwarders or filters to route your mail instead.
You can also learn about how to import email accounts and forwarders in cPanel if you already have a list of addresses that you'd like to be able to use for this purpose.
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Hello Jops,
Apologies, but the catch-all email address option is disabled on all shared servers due to security purposes. There is no way to make an exception to this in a shared server environment. If you were on a VPS or Dedicated server, then there would no problem enabling the catch-all email address.
If you have any further questions, please contact technical support or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Regards,
Arnel C.
Apologies, but the catch-all email address option is disabled on all shared servers due to security purposes. There is no way to make an exception to this in a shared server environment. If you were on a VPS or Dedicated server, then there would no problem enabling the catch-all email address.
If you have any further questions, please contact technical support or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Regards,
Arnel C.
Hey Arn,
Thanks for the quick answer. I was afraid that exceptions were out of the question. So, I spent the whole evening hacking away in AppleScript to retrieve all the TO and CC addresses that I have ever received email on and came up with a grand total of 345 forwarders that I have to create!!! WOW!!! Not something I'm looking forward to...
SO, second question: could someone, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE import these forwarders from a file that I can easily generate (e.g. CSV)?
Thanks for the quick answer. I was afraid that exceptions were out of the question. So, I spent the whole evening hacking away in AppleScript to retrieve all the TO and CC addresses that I have ever received email on and came up with a grand total of 345 forwarders that I have to create!!! WOW!!! Not something I'm looking forward to...
SO, second question: could someone, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE import these forwarders from a file that I can easily generate (e.g. CSV)?
Hello? ooh? oh? o? .?
Anyone there :) Still wondering if you could import my many forwarders from a .csv-file.
Thanks!
Anyone there :) Still wondering if you could import my many forwarders from a .csv-file.
Thanks!
Hello Jopsvanthof,
I checked into this and it appears that you cannot import the forwarders via CSV file, my apologies. If you need an immediate response, you should contact live support via phone, email or chat.
If you have any further questions, please contact technical support or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Regards,
Arnel C.
I checked into this and it appears that you cannot import the forwarders via CSV file, my apologies. If you need an immediate response, you should contact live support via phone, email or chat.
If you have any further questions, please contact technical support or leave a comment at the bottom of the page.
Regards,
Arnel C.
Thanks for the quick answer Arnel,
I will contact support through email/phone/chat next time. But I thought it might be interesting for other users to read this thread so that's why I posted the question(s) here :)
Too bad the csv file is not going to work... I will have to break up the group and do a couple dozen of 'em each night or so...
Thanks again!
J
I will contact support through email/phone/chat next time. But I thought it might be interesting for other users to read this thread so that's why I posted the question(s) here :)
Too bad the csv file is not going to work... I will have to break up the group and do a couple dozen of 'em each night or so...
Thanks again!
J
OMG, how great is InMotion! I'm not sure if this feature was recently added, or if I just need to go see an eye doctor, but when you go to your cPanel, then "Mail" section, look for "Import E-mail Accounts/Forwarders"... You CAN actually import many many email forwarders using a .csv-file!!
Might be interesting to add this info to this article Arn... And maybe remove some of my rambling :)
Have a great day (I'll tell you, my day just became spectacular! Not having to manually add 114 very necessary forwarders!)!
Might be interesting to add this info to this article Arn... And maybe remove some of my rambling :)
Have a great day (I'll tell you, my day just became spectacular! Not having to manually add 114 very necessary forwarders!)!
Hello jopsvanthof,
Thanks for the great suggestion as it didn't look like we had an article covering that subject already. I went ahead and updated this article to link to the new article Import Email Accounts/Forwarders in cPanel.
Thanks again!
- Jacob
Thanks for the great suggestion as it didn't look like we had an article covering that subject already. I went ahead and updated this article to link to the new article Import Email Accounts/Forwarders in cPanel.
Thanks again!
- Jacob
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