Setting Up Email, Forwaders, Default drop etc...

[mrspeed]

Hello,
I am trying to setup email so I can check all valid emails for my account from one POP account and automatically delet emails not sent to specific email addresses.

I setup up forwarders so that sales@mydomain.com and webmaster@mydomain.com are forwaded to 'zealot', which is my main cpanel username.

I have one pop account called 'zealot'

Now to delet everything else I set :blackhole: to receive all unrouted mail.


I use Yahoo to read my POP account.
I set it up like
Server = mail.mydomain.com
User = zealot
PW = xxxxxxx


This doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas why ?


I have read through the documentation and tried many combinations but nothing seems to work right.

cPanel.net Support Ticket Number:

[mickeymouse]

Dear mrspeed,

Try using username as zealot@yourdomain.com instead of zealot.

Regards,

[Stefaans]

I don't like using the main mail account because it attracts too much spam

Instead of using the main account zealot, I would do the following:
* Create a new mailbox, e.g. you@ymydomain.com
* Forward your sales and webmaster messages to you@mydomain.com
* Set the default address to :blackhole: or :fail: instead of zealot.

The above will ensure you get webmaster, sales and you@mydomain.com and nothing else.