A catch-all e-mailbox is one that collects all the messages sent to non-existent email addresses. For instance, if your address is info@domain.com, but someone miswrites it and sends an email to inof@domain.com, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have configured. Just one single mailbox per domain name can have this feature activated and in this way you will never miss emails because the other side has an out-of-date address or has made a spelling error. The negative aspect of setting up a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving a lot of junk emails, but this problem can be rectified by using anti-spam protection software. It is also vital to know that a mailbox with an active catch-all feature cannot forward inbound messages to a 3rd-party address.
Catch-all Emails in Website Hosting
If you have a Linux website hosting package with our company and you wish to activate the catch-all functionality for a certain email mailbox that you’ve got in your hosting account, it’ll take literally only one single mouse click in the Email Manager section of your Hepsia Control Panel to accomplish this. A catch-all button is available on the right-hand side of each email address that you have set up under any domain name registered in your account. You can select one single email address per domain by clicking the corresponding button. This will enable the feature instantly, so all emails sent to mistyped email addresses will be received there. Clicking the button once again will turn off the catch-all feature. If you have active email forwarding, our system will display a warning message and you will not be able to activate the catch-all feature until you delete the forwarding or you can simply select some other mailbox to be the catch-all one.