The default address, also know as catch-all address receives any mail for an invalid email address for the domain. If you’d would not like to receive emails to this address, you can have them discarded. One reason you may want these emails discarded is to save on your inode allotment. Proceed as follows:
1. Login to the cPanel and go to Default Address under Email section. (cPanel >> Home >> Email >> Default Address)
2. Select one of the following options:
- Discard the email while your server processes it by SMTP time with an error message — Select this option to send an error message to the sender. Enter an error message in the Failure Message (seen by sender) text box.
- Click Advanced Options to view the following additional option:
- Discard — Select this option to delete incoming messages without a failure notice.
Important:
Note that this option doesnt send a bounce back to the sender, hence the sender will not know that the delivery failed.
- Discard — Select this option to delete incoming messages without a failure notice.
- Click Change.