A catch-all mailbox receives emails sent to nonexistent addresses under the exact same domain name. For example, a message 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. In this way, you can receive emails from friends or customers who may have sent a message to your email address with a spelling error or to an old one, which they may still have, but you have already deactivated. Only one mailbox per domain name can be a catch-all one and email forwarding cannot be activated for such a mailbox. The latter is due to the fact that at a certain point you may start receiving spam email messages in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding restriction implies that the spam will not be sent to a 3rd-party mailbox.

Catch-all Emails in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host a domain on our cloud web hosting platform and you’ve got a shared website hosting account, you will be able to activate the catch-all functionality for any mailbox that you set up under the domain. The Email Manager section of the Hepsia hosting Control Panel includes quite a lot of features, but it is astonishingly simple to work with, so configuring a catch-all mailbox takes just a click of the mouse. All the email addresses that you have created will be listed in this section in alphabetical order and you will simply need to click the "Catch-all" button associated with the given address. Our system will alert you if there’s already another catch-all mailbox enabled for that domain or if the one that you would like to be a catch-all mailbox has email forwarding activated, so you can either turn off the latter feature or pick another mailbox. Deactivating the catch-all option is just as simple and takes yet another click on the same button.