Configure a default email address in cPanel

With this option, you will configure what happens to an email that comes to an email address that doesn’t exist on your account.

To configure a default email address in cPanel:

  1. Use yourdomain.com/cpanel to login to your account
  2. Go to the EMAIL section, then to the Default Address option
  3. Look for Default Address Maintenance section
  4. From the drop-down box, select the domain you want to setup a default email address for
  5. Choose an action, as:
    – Discard the email while your server processes it by SMTP time with an error message.
    – Forward to Email Address
    – Forward to your system account “username”
    – Pipe to a Program
    – Discard (Not Recommended)
  6. Click the Change button. From now on the action you selected will be applied to all unrouted emails.
cpanel default email address
cPanel Default Email Address

The video tutorial:

Default email address in cPanel

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