Understanding email setup - cpanel

[sprint66]

I need some help understanding email setup on cpanel. I have multiple domains, and my email setup is a bit of a mess.

So, normal recommended setup is as follows?

• Create mail account for domain, eg. chris@foo.com
• Create mail forwarders for other addresses I might want eg webmaster@foo.com -> chris@foo.com
• Set default address for that domain to eg ":fail: no such address here", so all other email and spam gets bounced. I assume one would get the text "no such address here" back in the failure email, but I just get "550-The recipient cannot be verified. Please check all recipients of this 550 message to verify they are valid."? I also assume that where a default address is set to ":fail: :fail: no such address here" the second ':fail:' forms part of the message?
• Default addresses for add-on domains such as foo.bar.com should also be set to :fail:.
• Default mail accounts should not be used, as they catch everything including loads of spam.

What might I use filters for?

Chris

[eUKhost.com]

Filter should be used for existing email address which you have setup from the control panel. When you set :fail: for catchall then the sender will get 500 error rather than no such user here. Logs on the server show no such user here but the sender who has sent email to invalid address gets a bounceback notification of error 550.

[sprint66]

Thanks! Is what I wrote above the normal mail setup? Am I write what I say about the :fail: message?

[eUKhost.com]

You are right about :fail:

:fail: is just to stop passionate spammers from launching dictionary attack against you. It saves server resources and reduces your problems as well. You can setup any number of forwarders but catchall is not recommended.

[sprint66]

Ok, thanks..