A catch-all mailbox is one that collects all the emails sent to nonexistent addresses. For instance, if your address is info@domain.com, but somebody mistypes it and sends an email message to inof@domain.com, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have configured. Only one mailbox per domain name can have this feature enabled and in this way you’ll never miss messages because the other side has an obsolete address or has made a typographical error. The drawback of setting up a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving plenty of junk emails, but this issue can be solved by using anti-spam filtering software. It is also essential to remember that a mailbox with an active catch-all functionality cannot forward inbound emails to a third-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Hosting
You will be able to configure a catch-all mailbox without difficulty in case you’ve got a shared hosting plan with our company. The Email Manager in our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel is feature-loaded, yet really easy to use, and it will enable you to activate various options, including the catch-all one, with only several clicks. All the mailboxes that you have will be listed alphabetically in this section and to the right of each one you will see a small-size "Catch-all" symbol. Clicking on it once will enable this feature, clicking it again will disable it. As you can have just one such mailbox per domain name, our system will inform you if you already have another mailbox with this option enabled or if you’ve got active email forwarding.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
The custom-built Hepsia hosting Control Panel that is included with every semi-dedicated server package that we offer will allow you to configure a catch-all mailbox without difficulty even in case you don’t have much web/email hosting experience. All it takes to accomplish that is to click on the catch-all icon, which will be next to each mailbox that you have set up with your domains in the hosting Control Panel’s Email Manager section. As you can have just one mailbox with this feature per domain, our system will warn you if you have already created another catch-all mailbox or if the one that you want to use has email forwarding enabled. If you reach the decision that you don’t want the feature any longer, you can deactivate it by clicking once again on the exact same icon. The Email Manager will also allow you to see your catch-all mailboxes at a glance.