A catch-all mailbox receives emails sent to non-existent email addresses under the same domain name. For example, a message sent to the miswritten [email protected] will be delivered to [email protected] if the catch-all feature has been enabled for the latter. In this way, you can receive emails from acquaintances or clients who may have sent a message to your email address with a typo or to an obsolete one, which they may still have, but you have already disabled. Only one mailbox per domain name can be a catch-all one and email forwarding cannot be set up for such a mailbox. The latter is due to the fact that at a certain point you may begin receiving spam emails in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding restriction means that the spam will not be received in a 3rd-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Hosting
Configuring a catch-all email mailbox will be pretty easy in case you’ve got a Linux shared hosting plan with our company. You can activate this feature through our advanced, albeit intuitive Email Manager, which is built into the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you will administer your hosting account. You will see all the email addresses that you have created enumerated alphabetically and next to each one of them there will be a small-size "Catch-all" icon, which will instantly reveal to you if a particular mailbox stores all the emails for a certain domain name or not. With one single click on the icon you can enable or disable this feature whenever you wish. In case there’s enabled email forwarding or in case another mailbox has already been set up as a catch-all one for a certain domain, you will get a warning notification from our system. The latter will not deactivate/replace anything automatically or without your consent.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
The in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with each semi-dedicated server package that we’re offering will permit you to create a catch-all mailbox without any efforts even in case you do not have much web/email hosting experience. All you have to do to achieve that is click on the catch-all icon, which will be to the right of each mailbox that you have created using your domains in the hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section. As you can have just one single mailbox with this feature per domain name, our system will let you know if you have already set up another catch-all mailbox or if the one that you want to use has email forwarding enabled. If you reach the decision that you do not need this feature any longer, you can disable it by clicking once again on the very same icon. The Email Manager will also permit you to view your catch-all mailboxes at a glance.