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Author Topic: Does my cpanel have it's own email account?  (Read 377 times)
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« on: March 02, 2008, 01:12:54 PM »

Not sure how to ask this question.
I set up a SMF forum recently with fantastico. It seems to be working fine.

When I tested a new forum user it sent a welcome email from an address I didn't know I had.
It came from "username@mydomain". Username being my cpanel login name. I tried to reply to that address and got a undeliverable message (no such address). I changed SMF to use a valid email and a subsequent test worked OK. So that's fine.

In cpanel I clicked on the webmail icon and found several messages from "username@localhost" (again username being my cpanel login name).

I guess my question is "what is this email account that gets messages from the server but is not accessible from outside of cpanel?"

I hope that makes more sense to you guys than it does to me. Confused Confused

Thanks. Ken.
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« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2008, 01:35:39 PM »

I'm not sure what it is Ken, but everyone has one - and it's undeletable. It gets messages from SMF or your website which show up as "Mail not sent" but they are really. You should use your own e-mail, or people will know your username for your hosting and then can bruteforce it.
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« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2008, 10:02:32 AM »

Thanks for the info Mitch FTW.

I also figured out I need to check that mail box periodically. It told me I needed to update SMF, Which I did and it worked fine.
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