A catch-all mailbox receives emails sent to non-existent addresses under the same domain name. For example, an email sent to the mistyped suport@domain.com will be delivered to support@domain.com if the catch-all feature has been activated for the latter. Thus, you can get emails from acquaintances or customers who may have sent a message to your email address with a spelling error or to an out-of-date one, which they may still have, but you have already deleted. Only one mailbox per domain can be a catch-all one and email forwarding cannot be set up for such a mailbox. This is so because of the fact that at some moment you may start receiving spam emails in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding limitation implies that the spam will not be sent to a 3rd-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Cloud Hosting
In case you host a domain name on our cloud hosting platform and you’ve got a cloud hosting account, you’ll be able to activate the catch-all feature for any mailbox that you set up under the domain name. The Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel includes quite a few functions, but it’s surprisingly intuitive, so setting up a catch-all mailbox requires just one single mouse click. All the email addresses that you’ve created will be listed in this section in alphabetical order and you will simply have to click the "Catch-all" button for the respective address. Our system will notify you if there is already another catch-all mailbox activated for that domain name or if the one that you’d like to be a catch-all mailbox has email forwarding activated, so you can either disable the latter feature or pick some other mailbox. Disabling the catch-all option is just as easy and requires one more mouse click on the same button.