The Catch-all mail box receives all messages which would be otherwise rejected because the receiver does not exist.
The default or catch-all address is the one to which all e-mails,
addressed to a non-available or mistakenly entered email account at your
domain name are routed to. In case someone sends an email to [email protected] and you do not have such mailbox, the catch-all option will forward this email to your default email address.
Check out video tutorial about how to set/change a default email address from cPanel:
How to Set/Change a Default Email Address Detailed Tutorial
Step 1: To access the auto responders menu, click on the Default Address icon on the main screen of your cPanel interface.
Step 2: From the drop-down menu select the (sub)domain for which you would like to set up a default address.
Step 3: Now you have several options.
- You can forward all unrouted mail to an email address; in this case, you should type in the address in the field.
- You
can discard all unrouted mail with an error to the senders; in this
case you should type in the message which will be sent to the senders.
- From the Advanced Options you can discard all unrouted mail, pipe it to a program or forward it to the system account.
Step 4: Click Change to apply your settings.
Please check the default email from time to time to ensure that it is not filled up with needed/unneeded messages