Catch-all Emails

Learn about exactly what a catch-all e-mail account is, how it works and how to set up one.

A catch-all mailbox is one that captures all the messages sent to inactive addresses. For instance, if your address is info@domain.com, but someone misspells it and sends a message to inof@domain.com, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have set up. Only one single mailbox per domain can have this feature enabled and thus you will never miss emails because the other party has an obsolete email address or has made a spelling error. The drawback of creating a catch-all mailbox is that you may start receiving a lot of unsolicited bulk emails, but this issue can be resolved using an anti-spam protection solution. It is also crucial to keep in mind that a mailbox with an active catch-all feature cannot forward incoming emails to a third-party email address.

Catch-all Emails in Shared Website Hosting

If you’ve got a Linux shared website hosting with us and you want to enable the catch-all functionality for a specific e-mailbox that you’ve got in your web hosting account, it will take literally only one single click in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel to accomplish that. A catch-all button is available on the right-hand side of each and every email address that you have set up under any domain name registered in the account. You can choose one single address per domain name by clicking on the corresponding button. This will activate the feature immediately, so all emails sent to miswritten email addresses will be delivered there. Clicking on the button again will turn off the catch-all feature. If you have activated email forwarding, our system will show a cautionary notification and you will not be able to enable the catch-all feature until you remove the forwarding or you can simply pick a different mailbox to be the catch-all one.

Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Hosting

A catch-all email address can be created with a couple of mouse clicks if you have a Linux semi-dedicated hosting with us. The hosting account will be managed through our custom-created Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to create email addresses with any domain hosted there. To enable the catch-all option for a specific mailbox, you’ll have to click on the logo with the exact same name, which will be on the right-hand side of each email address. Deactivating the feature can be achieved in the same way and will not take more than a click either. If the catch-all feature has already been enabled for a particular domain name, you’ll receive a warning alert. The same is valid if the mailbox that you wish to be a catch-all one has email forwarding enabled, as our system will never disable or change any feature automatically.