A catch-all email mailbox is one that captures all the messages sent to invalid addresses. For example, if your email 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 created. Only one mailbox per domain name can have this feature enabled and thus you’ll never miss messages because the other party has an outdated address or has made a spelling error. The disadvantage of creating a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving plenty of spam, but this issue can be fixed using anti-spam filtering software. It is also important to bear in mind that a mailbox with an enabled catch-all feature cannot forward incoming email messages to a 3rd-party address.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a catch-all mailbox will be quite easy if you’ve got a shared website hosting with us. You can activate this option through our powerful, albeit user-friendly Email Manager tool, which is an essential part of the Hepsia Control Panel, via which you will manage the hosting account itself. You’ll find all the email addresses that you’ve set up enumerated in alphabetical order and on the right-hand side of each of them there will be a small "Catch-all" icon, which will quickly reveal to you whether a specific mailbox gets all the messages associated with a given domain name or not. With one single mouse click on the icon you can enable or disable this feature whenever you like. In case there is active email forwarding or if some other mailbox has already been set up as a catch-all one for a particular domain, you’ll get a warning notification from our system. The latter won’t disable/replace anything automatically and without your permission.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
A catch-all address can be created with a couple of mouse clicks if you’ve got a Linux semi-dedicated plan with us. The semi-dedicated account will be administered through our in-house developed Hepsia Control Panel and you will be able to create email addresses with any domain name registered there. To enable the catch-all functionality for a given mailbox, you’ll have to click the symbol with the same name, which will be on the right side of each mailbox. Disabling this feature can be done in the same way and will not require more than a click either. If the catch-all feature has already been activated for a given domain, you’ll receive a warning notification. The same is valid if the mailbox that you would like to be a catch-all one has email forwarding enabled, as our system will never modify or deactivate any feature automatically.