A catch-all mailbox receives email messages sent to non-existent addresses under the same domain. For example, an email message sent to the mistyped suport@domain.com will be delivered to support@domain.com if the catch-all feature has been activated for the latter. In this way, you can get messages from acquaintances or customers who may have sent a message to your email address with a typographical error or to an outdated one, which they may still have, but you have already disabled. Only one single mailbox per domain name can be a catch-all one and email forwarding cannot be enabled for such a mailbox. This is due to the fact that at some moment you may begin receiving spam email messages in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding restriction means that the spam will not be re-sent to a third-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Website Hosting
Creating a catch-all email mailbox will be exceptionally easy if you’ve got a Linux website hosting service with our company. You can enable this option through our advanced, yet intuitive Email Manager, which is an integral part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll administer the hosting account itself. You’ll see all the mailboxes that you have set up displayed in alphabetical order and to the right of each of them there will be a mini "Catch-all" icon, which will instantly show you whether a particular mailbox stores all the email messages for a given domain or not. With a single click on the icon you can activate or deactivate this feature at any time. In case there is enabled email forwarding or if a different mailbox has already been set up as a catch-all one for a specific domain, you will get a warning note from our system. The latter will not replace/disable anything automatically or without your permission.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
A catch-all email address can be set up with a couple of clicks of the mouse if you have a Linux semi-dedicated service with our company. The semi-dedicated hosting account will be administered through our custom Hepsia Control Panel and you’ll be able to create mailboxes using any domain name hosted there. To enable the catch-all functionality for a certain mailbox, you’ll have to click on the icon with the same name, which will be to the right of each email address. Disabling this option can be achieved in the very same fashion and will not take more than one click either. If the catch-all option has already been activated for a given domain name, you’ll get a warning alert. The same is valid if the mailbox that you’d like to be a catch-all one has email forwarding enabled, as our system will never replace or disable any feature automatically.