204 Serving Your Customers
Setting Up Site-Wide Preferences for Handling Mail to
Nonexistent Users (Mail Bounce)
When somebody sends an e-mail message to an e-mail address that does not exist
under your domain, the mail server, by default accepts mail, processes it, and when it
finds out that there is no such a recipient under the domain, it returns the mail back to
sender with the ―this address no longer accepts mail‖ notice. You can choose to:
Change the default notice if you do not like it,
Forward all such mail to the desired e-mail address,
Reject such mail without accepting it and without notifying senders.
This setting can decrease mail server load caused by a large amount of spam,
which is often sent to randomly generated user names. However, for spammers,
this can somewhat speed up scanning your mail server for valid e-mail addresses.
To configure the site-wide settings for handling mail to nonexistent users:
1 Click the Domains shortcut in the navigation pane.
2 Click the required domain name in the list.
3 Click Mail.
4 Click Preferences.
5 Choose a desired option and specify the information as required.
6 Click OK.
