3.3. MAIL MENU

CHAPTER 3. HOW DO I USE CPANEL?

3.3.3

Setting your default email address

Any email that is sent to an unknown account at your domain name, such as unknown@yourdomain.com,

gets automatically rerouted to your default email account. All web site accounts are automatically assigned a

default email address   user@yourdomain.com   which you can change, if required.

To set your default email address:

1. Click on the Default Address link in the Mail Menu area.

2. Click on the Set Default Address link.

3. Enter the complete email address of the new default in the field next to your web site name drop down list.

Note: You can enter :blackhole: to throw away all incoming mail, or :fail: to bounce the email back to

the sender.

4. Click on the

button. Your new default email address has now been set.

Figure 3.11: Setting your default email message

3.3.4

Auto Responders

Auto responders are email messages that are sent automatically when an email arrives for a specific

email account. auto responders are most commonly used for an  Out of Office  style message to inform your

correspondents that you are not available, without you having to reply manually. You can have more than one

auto responder on one account. You can use plain text or include HTML code in the auto responder, and choose

from a wide variety of character sets.

To add an auto responder:

1. Click on the Auto Responders link in the Mail Menu area.

2. Click on the Add AutoResponder link.

3. Enter the address of the account that the auto responder responds to in the Email field.

4. Enter your name or address in the From field. You do not have to put anything in this field.

5. Enter the subject line of the auto responder in the Subject field.

6. Click on the required character set for this auto responder from the Character Set drop down list, if

required.

7. Click on the HTML Message tick box if you want to include HTML code in the auto responder.

8. Enter the auto responder message in the Body field. You can not use HTML code in this field   plain text

only.

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