Need help: How can I automatically dump all email to a certain account?

[Ann]

I have a catch-all account--my default email account --myaccountname @ mydomain.com-- that is getting bombarded with spam. Anyone @ mydomain.com lands there...some really weird names too like e8ckwl43idl @ mydomain.com , joeschmoe @ myaccount.com ...email account names I NEVER had. How can I trash EVERYTHING that lands there automatically? I have email account names for all my legitimate names, so the chance of a sincere email from a long lost acquaintance landing in the catchall account is pretty unlikely.

This is really getting to be burdonsome...I'm spending hours this morning trying to trash them through webmail because they wouldn't download on my computer--meanwhile I had some 7 mb and 1100 messages that kept giving me out of memory errors while I'm doing that. I don't have time for this...no one does. My account needs help.

[admin]

You need to change the Default address to blackhole. In some cases, you may also need support to create a forwarder for your main account. DO testing on your main account after changing the default address to make sure your main account doesn't go to the black hole as well.

[Gnomercy]

There is an option in your control panel to take care of this. Log into your control panel, click on mail > default address > set default address and put :blackhole: in the space provided. Do NOT use :fail:. It sounds great and everything, but we're turning that off for the accounts that are using it because, with the volume of spam the average domain receives, the fail feature is clogging up the mail queue.

[Ann]

How do I change it to Blackhole? Is there an online guide for this?

[Ann]

OK, Gmomercy and I must've posted at the same time. Thanks for the tip...I sure hope this works!

[Ann]

Not really sure if this is working. I still see emails coming into that account via my email client.

[Gnomercy]

Do me a favor and drop in a helpdesk ticket for this Ann. Gimme your cpanel login information (user and password) and I'll test it for you.

[Ann]

I think I figured it out now...I needed to blackhole *every* unrouted email to all my domains, not just the catch-all, even though the other unrouted domain emails got forwarded to the catch-all. Duh! :D

[admin]

You are correct, each domain must be addressed. The configuration file for aliases for each domain is separate. In addition, I suppose there are customers that would only want to blackhole some of their domains, and not all of them.