How to deactivate default mail address

[mendo]

hello!

i have got a domain, but i'm not using any email-address using this domain.
i checked mails from the default mail address of this domain recently and i saw heaps of spam in this mailbox (some thousands).

is it possible to deactivate this default mail address totally? so what i want is that all unrouted mails to my domain will be sent back and not forwarded to my default mail address. is this possible?

thanks for help,
mendo

[forlinuxsupport]

yes

look under tweak settings in the main cpanel on left menu , set it to :fail:


Andy

[mendo]

thanks for this advice, but i couldn't find these tweak settings in my cpanel.
where can i find this option?

i'm using cPanel X v2.5.0 (i think, that's the version).

[driverC]

In Cpanel click on "Mail" -> "Default address". Then set the default address to :blackhole: The blackhole setting will not send mailer daemon messages back which is good for the server as it will cause less load.

[elleryjh]

mendo:
It is in cPanel under "Mail" -> "Default address". The behavior you are looking for is fail, not blackhole as driverC mentioned. You should enter the following in the box on the Default Address page:

:fail: No Such Address Here

forlinuxsupport: This user is using cPanel not WHM

driverC: This user was looking for a way to reject, not blackhole mail. Furthemore, :fail: is much perferred over :blackhole: See http://www.configserver.com/free/fail.html for more info

[Lyttek]

In Cpanel click on "Mail" -> "Default address". Then set the default address to :blackhole: The blackhole setting will not send mailer daemon messages back which is good for the server as it will cause less load.

Search the forums... :fail: causes less of a load than :blackhole: