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 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 emails because the other side has an obsolete email address or has made a spelling error. The drawback of configuring a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving lots of unsolicited bulk emails, but this problem can be resolved by using an anti-spam protection solution. It is also vital to remember that a mailbox with an enabled catch-all functionality cannot forward inbound emails to a 3rd-party address.
Catch-all Emails in Cloud Website Hosting
You’ll be able to create a catch-all email mailbox effortlessly if you’ve got a cloud website hosting plan with us. The Email Manager in our custom-built Hepsia Control Panel is feature-loaded, yet really intuitive, and it will allow you to activate different features, including the catch-all one, with no more than several clicks of the mouse. All the mailboxes that you have set up will be displayed alphabetically in this section and on the right side of each of them you’ll see a mini "Catch-all" icon. Clicking on it once will enable this feature, clicking it once more will deactivate it. Since you can have just one such mailbox per domain, our system will inform you if you’ve already got another mailbox with this feature activated or if you’ve got activated email forwarding.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
A catch-all address can be created with several mouse clicks in case you have a semi-dedicated server with our company. The semi-dedicated account will be administered via our in-house developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to create mailboxes under any domain name hosted there. To activate the catch-all option for a certain mailbox, you’ll have to click on the button with the same name, which will be to the right of each email address. Disabling this functionality can be done in the very same way and will not take more than a click either. If the catch-all functionality has already been enabled for a certain domain, you will receive a notification. The same goes if the mailbox that you would like to be a catch-all one has email forwarding enabled, as our system will never deactivate or replace any feature automatically.