Inactive email address problem.

[velden]

I have deleted my admin@.... email address due to a lot of spam that I received. This email address has been deleted for months now, but I still receive spam delivered to my account! How is this possible? This email address is not / was not advertised anywhere and is not my contact address on my profile. I'm also concerned that spam addressed to this inactive email account ends up in the inboxes of 2 of my other email accounts. Where's the link? Surely mail sent to an inactive / deleted account must be bounced and not re-routed to active accounts.

I would appreciate comments from the administrators on this.

 

[Gouri]

I have deleted my admin@.... email address due to a lot of spam that I received. This email address has been deleted for months now, but I still receive spam delivered to my account! How is this possible? This email address is not / was not advertised anywhere and is not my contact address on my profile. I'm also concerned that spam addressed to this inactive email account ends up in the inboxes of 2 of my other email accounts. Where's the link? Surely mail sent to an inactive / deleted account must be bounced and not re-routed to active accounts.

I would appreciate comments from the administrators on this.

You might have set the new email account as default email account. Check in your cpanel for default email account.

 

[velden]

No it's not the default email account. As a matter of fact the account doesn't even exist anymore.

 

[Gouri]

No it's not the default email account. As a matter of fact the account doesn't even exist anymore.

The default email address will "catch" any mail that is sent to an invalid email address for your domain. All mail that is sent to an address that does not exist will go to the default email address.

So just check is the new email address is set to "Forward to email address" then the mail sent to old deleted mailid comes to this default address.

So you may have to change the setting.