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Discussion in 'E-mail Discussion' started by a.rayman, Mar 14, 2017.

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    Hello,

    After checking Mail Delivery Reports, I can see that emails are being successfully received to email accounts that don't exist - they are marked as spam, but I would like to see them rejected.

    Is this possible?
     
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    Hello,

    Yes, you can change the "Default Address" option for the associated cPanel accounts to "Discard the email while your server processes it by SMTP time with an error message":

    Default Address - Documentation - cPanel Documentation

    This will ensure delivery attempts to non-existent email accounts are rejected.

    Thank you.
     
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    Thank you for the help.

    Incase anyone is looking to have it Reject by default for all cPanel accounts: WHM >> Tweak Settings >> Select "Fail" for "Initial default/catch-all forwarder destination"
     
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