A catch-all e-mailbox is one that collects all the emails sent to inactive addresses. For example, if your email address is [email protected], but someone misspells it and sends an email message to [email protected], it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have set up. Only one single mailbox per domain name can have this feature activated and in this way you’ll never miss emails because the other party has an out-of-date email address or has made a spelling mistake. The negative aspect of using a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving a lot of unsolicited bulk messages, but this problem can be solved by using anti-spam protection software. It is also important to know that a mailbox with an enabled catch-all functionality cannot forward inbound messages to a 3rd-party address.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Website Hosting
Setting up a catch-all e-mailbox will be remarkably easy if you’ve got a shared website hosting plan with our company. You can enable this feature through our advanced, yet simple-to-use Email Manager, which is an integral part of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel, via which you’ll administer your web hosting account. You will find all the email addresses that you’ve created listed in alphabetical order and on the right side of each of them there will be a small-size "Catch-all" icon, which will instantly inform you whether a particular mailbox stores all the email messages pertaining to a certain domain name or not. With one mouse click on the icon you can activate or deactivate this feature at any time. If there’s enabled email forwarding or if a different mailbox has already been set up as a catch-all one for a certain domain name, you’ll receive a warning note from our system. The latter will not replace/deactivate anything automatically and without your approval.
Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers
A catch-all email address can be set up with a few mouse clicks in case you’ve got a semi-dedicated plan with us. The semi-dedicated hosting account will be administered via our custom Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you’ll be able to create mailboxes with any domain hosted there. To activate the catch-all functionality for a certain mailbox, you will need to click on the symbol with the exact same name, which will be to the right of each email address. Deactivating this feature can be accomplished in the same way and will not take more than a click either. If a catch-all mailbox has already been enabled for a specific domain name, you will get a warning alert. The same goes if the mailbox that you’d like to be a catch-all one has email forwarding enabled, as our system will never edit or disable any feature automatically.