A catch-all mailbox receives email messages sent to inactive addresses under the same domain. For example, an email sent to the miswritten suport@domain.com will go to support@domain.com if the catch-all feature has been activated for the latter. Thus, 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 old one, which they may still have, but you have already deactivated. Only one single mailbox per domain can be a catch-all one and email forwarding cannot be activated for such a mailbox. This is so because of the fact that at some point you may start receiving spam messages in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding restriction means that the spam will not be redirected to a third-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Web Hosting
In case you have a Linux shared web hosting service with our company and you would like to enable the catch-all feature for a particular e-mailbox that you have in your hosting account, it will take literally only a single click in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. A catch-all button is available next to each email address that you have created under any domain registered in your account. You can pick one email address per domain name by clicking on the respective button. This will activate the feature straight away, so all email messages sent to misspelled email addresses will be delivered there. Clicking on the button once again will deactivate the catch-all feature. If you’ve got activated email forwarding, our system will show a warning notification and you will not be able to enable the catch-all feature unless you disable the forwarding or you can simply select another mailbox to be the catch-all one.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
A catch-all address can be set up with several clicks of the mouse in case you’ve got a Linux semi-dedicated hosting service with our company. The semi-dedicated account will be administered via our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to create mailboxes with any domain registered here. To activate the catch-all feature for a certain mailbox, you’ll need to click the symbol with the same name, which will be on the right side of each email address. Disabling this functionality can be accomplished in the same manner and will not take more than one 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 replace anything automatically.