Please help me with cPanel mail setup!

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by Jon12345, Sep 12, 2006.

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    I am a bit confused on my setup for my email. I used Outlook and there is no tick in the box that says leave a copy of the email on the server. So I thought I would automatically be deleting the messages after they were retrieved. However, this is not the case.

    On my cPanel Mail Account Maintenance settings, I have two entries

    Main Account >>> jon7com
    >>>jon@jon7.com

    It is under Main Account that I have pages and pages of emails. They are where people have been sending to and other made up names.

    People just send me an email to and that is all I retrieve. I don't want anything else.

    Can someone please advise me on what is going on?

    Thanks,

    Jon
     
    Jon12345, Sep 12, 2006 IP
  2. sreyas

    sreyas Well-Known Member

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    Hi jon,

    Your main(default) account act as the catch all for you domain, thats any mail send your domain mailbox that doesnot really exist get redirected to this catch all address. So if you need change the catch all address change the default mail address from your, cpanel-> mail -> default address. Then you won't be getting these tones of mail to your main account.

    Regards,
    Ciril Sreedhar
     
    sreyas, Sep 12, 2006 IP
  3. Jon12345

    Jon12345 Peon

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    Sorted, thank you!
     
    Jon12345, Sep 13, 2006 IP