Cpanel / WHM - catchall email question

So I want to turn off catchall emails using :fail:

I did this in WHM, but it doesn't effect the accounts created before I made the change, it only effects "new accounts"

When I login to the account I want to change via Cpanel it says
"The Default E-Mail/Catch-All feature has been disabled by default due to Spam and Security concerns.
Please contact support if you need assistance with creating mail forwards (aliases) as an alternative. "


How can I use WHM to edit the accounts manually to set the catchall to :fail:

someone heeeelp?

 

it sounds like this feature is disabled by the cpanel server admin.

 

I am the cpanel server admin?

When I enable the feature, it only effects "new accounts" being accounts created after I enable it.

I want to enable the feature for ALL accounts - being accounts that I created whilst the feature was originally switched off.

 

if you need to change : blackhole to :fail for all the domains. You can use the following

replace :blackhole: :fail: -- /etc/valiases/*

Thanks!

 

afaik, the thing that you set in whm is the default setting that is used while creating a new cpanel account. for changing already made settings, you will have to do that manually. I don't think theres an option to multi-reset in all cpanels that you have on your server

 

Hi there Sn@ke! Your wish is my command.
I'm assuming this is a linux/centos box. The following should all be done via ssh. Make a backup of all files in /etc/valiases before running and then create a file (touch filename) and add the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Converting all domain Default Accounts to :fail: ...";
opendir (DIR, "/etc/valiases/") or die;
while (my $file = readdir (DIR)) {
	if ($file =~ /^\./) {next}
	open (IN, "</etc/valiases/$file") or die;
	my @data = <IN>;
	close (IN);
	open (OUT, ">/etc/valiases/$file") or die;
	foreach my $line (@data) {
		if ($line =~ /^\*\:/) {
			print OUT "*: :fail:\n";
		} else {
			print OUT $line;
		}
	}
	close (OUT);
}
print "Done!\n";

Code (markup):

Then run: perl filename