A catch-all email mailbox is one that gathers all the emails sent to non-existent email addresses. For instance, if your address is info@domain.com, but somebody misspells it and sends an email to inof@domain.com, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have configured. Just one mailbox per domain name can have this feature enabled and thus you will never miss messages because the other party has an out-of-date address or has made a typographical error. The disadvantage of configuring a catch-all mailbox is that you may start receiving a lot of junk emails, but this issue can be rectified by using an anti-spam protection solution. It is also crucial to bear in mind that a mailbox with an active catch-all functionality cannot redirect inbound emails to a 3rd-party email address.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Hosting
If you host a domain name on our cloud hosting platform and you’ve got a shared hosting account, you’ll be able to enable the catch-all functionality for any email mailbox that you create under the domain name. The Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel comes with quite a few functions, but it is remarkably simple to use, so creating a catch-all mailbox takes only a click. All the email addresses that you have set up will be shown in this section alphabetically and you will simply need to click on the "Catch-all" button associated with the specific address. Our system will inform you if there is already another catch-all mailbox enabled for that domain name or if the one that you want to be a catch-all mailbox has email forwarding activated, so you can either turn off the latter feature or pick some other mailbox. Deactivating the catch-all feature is just as easy and requires yet another mouse click on the very same button.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
The custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel that comes with every semi-dedicated server package that we’re offering will allow you to set up a catch-all mailbox without any effort even in case you do not have much web/email hosting experience. All you have to do to achieve that is click the catch-all icon, which will be on the right side of each email address that you’ve set up using your domain names in the hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section. Since you can have just one mailbox with this feature per domain, our system will notify you if you have already created another catch-all mailbox or if the one that you would like to use has email forwarding activated. If you decide that you don’t want this feature anymore, you can deactivate it by clicking once again on the exact same icon. The Email Manager will also allow you to view your catch-all mailboxes at a glance.