How do I turn off my catch all email account?

[WN-Ali]

With most new accounts, you have a default email account that is called a catchall account. Any email sent to anything@yourdomain.com will go to it if there is not a separate account for it. Some people like it this way, but many people don't. Over time, you will find yourself getting a lot of spam to all kinds of email addresses.

If you would rather have only specified email accounts and not have everything go to a default email, you need to create a POP account or a forwarder for whatever you want your email address to be, then set your default email to fail.

To turn off the default email, go to your cpanel link for "Default Address" which may be on your cpanel front page, or may be in a mail page. On that page you will see "Change Default Address" and "Send all unrouted mail for [domain.com] to _____________. In the box, just put :fail: with the : before and after it.

This will make anything going to non-existent email addresses just disappear.

Just don't forget to either create a POP account or a forwarder if you want to use an email address at your domain.