Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domain.tld

You may see error “Fatal! Write failure” error message while adding email forwarders OR setting a catchall email address from cPanel >> “Email Accounts” section. The error is:

Fatal! Write Failure: /etc/valiases/domainname.tld. Ignore any messages of success this can only result in failure!

The reason is the /etc/valiases/domainname.tld file is missing OR having incorrect permissions. In order to correct the valiases file, ssh to your server as root and create the file with the appropriate permissions:

# cd /etc/valiases/

# touch domainname.tld

# chown user.mail domainname.tld

# chmod 644 domainname.tld

Once the valiases file is created for the user with appropriate permissions, you will be able to add email forwarders and catchall email address from cPanel again.