--On 5 June 2006 22:36:03 +0100 Graeme Fowler <graeme@???> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:03 -0700, altendew wrote:
>> Sounds even better, but I am not sure how-to set this up. I was using
>> CPanel's Default Address feature to set it to :blackhole:, how would I
>> turn the catch-all off.
>
> http://www.cpanel.net/docs/cpanel/Changing_your_default_email_address.htm
>
> :fail: instead of :blackhole:
>
> *However* - I'm not familiar with cPanel - I don't know if this would
> then accept-and-bounce, or simply bounce (which is what you want).
The word for that is "reject". You can't bounce an email that you haven't
accepted - that's the job of the sending MTA. I'd bet heavily that :fail:
will reject the email.
Try it out and see what happens when you send an email to a bad address.
> There
> are many possible conditions where the former could happen, which puts
> you right back where you started. Either way it'd be worth a shot as you
> should easily be able to see what does happen.
>
> Graeme
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Ian Eiloart
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