Can I use tbird to download my root account mail?

[pengyou]

Can I use tbird to download my root account email? By root account I mean the account that starts with part of my domain name. I have already tried and am not getting anywhere, hence the question as to whether or not it is possible.

[Early Out]

Seems to me I tried this with Outlook, also with no success.

The root account email is a different sort of animal. It's not really a POP3 email address, and should never be used for actual email. I'm not sure why it exists at all, frankly - it doesn't seem to serve any useful function.

To me, it would make sense for BH to create a userID based on your domain name, but not even call it an email address, since you can't use it that way. It should be used only for things like logging into cPanel. Then if you want to use email on your domain, you just have to set up some real POP3 email accounts.

[Sageth]

I was able to do this, but it only downloads... you can't send mail from it. I use it to check my delivery failures for people (bots) that register with false email addresses.

I didn't do anything special to overcome this. I just used my username (also the prefix of your databases, and the same name you sign into cpanel with) and the password. I didn't have to do any name+domain or anything like that.

[felgall]

Of course 99% of the delivery failure messages there will be spam emails spread by servers incorrectly configured to bounce messages instead of blackholing them. The other 1% of messages will be valid undeliverable messages returned from servers set up incorrectly. Most of your undeliverable messages will have been blackholed by the receiving server and so you will have no way to tell that they weren't delivered.