A catch-all email mailbox receives messages sent to invalid email addresses under the exact same domain. For example, an email message sent to the misspelled [email protected] will be delivered to [email protected] if the catch-all feature has been enabled for the latter. In this way, you can receive messages from friends or customers who may have sent a message to your email address with a spelling error or to an out-of-date one, which they may still have, but you have already deactivated. Only one mailbox per domain 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 some moment you may begin receiving spam messages in the catch-all mailbox and the forwarding restriction means that the spam will not be received in a 3rd-party mailbox.

Catch-all Emails in Shared Website Hosting

If you host a domain name on our cloud web hosting platform and you have a shared website hosting account, you’ll be able to activate the catch-all functionality for any mailbox that you set up under the domain name. The Email Manager section of the Hepsia Control Panel offers quite a lot of features, but it is very easy to use, so setting up a catch-all mailbox requires only one single click of the mouse. All the email addresses that you have will be listed in this section alphabetically and you will just have to click the "Catch-all" button for the respective email address. Our system will alert you if there’s already another catch-all mailbox enabled 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 turn off the latter feature or select another mailbox. Deactivating the catch-all feature is just as easy and takes one more mouse click on the same button.

Catch-all Emails in Semi-dedicated Servers

A catch-all email address can be created with a few clicks of the mouse in case you have a Linux semi-dedicated server with our company. The hosting account will be managed through our in-house built Hepsia hosting Control Panel and you will be able to set up mailboxes with any domain name hosted here. To activate the catch-all feature for a certain mailbox, you’ll have to click on the sign with the same name, which will be on the right side of each email address. Deactivating this option can be accomplished in the exact same way and will not require more than one click either. In case the catch-all option has already been activated for a particular domain name, you will receive a warning notification. The same is valid if the mailbox that you’d like to be a catch-all one has email forwarding activated, as our system will never disable or change anything automatically.