A catch-all mailbox is one that captures all the messages sent to invalid addresses. For example, if your email address is info@domain.com, but someone misspells it and sends an email message to inof@domain.com, it will still be received in the catch-all mailbox that you have configured. Just one single mailbox per domain can have this feature enabled and thus you’ll never miss emails because the other party has an outdated email address or has made a typographical error. The disadvantage of configuring a catch-all mailbox is that you may begin receiving a lot of unsolicited email messages, but this issue can be solved using an anti-spam protection solution. It is also vital to know that a mailbox with an enabled catch-all functionality cannot redirect incoming email messages to a 3rd-party mailbox.
Catch-all Emails in Shared Web Hosting
You’ll be able to configure a catch-all e-mailbox without any difficulty in case you’ve got a shared web hosting account with our company. The Email Manager tool in our custom-developed Hepsia hosting Control Panel is full-featured, yet extremely user-friendly, and it will allow you to enable various options, including the catch-all one, with no more than several mouse clicks. All the mailboxes that you have set up will be enumerated in alphabetical order in this section and on the right-hand side of each one of them you will notice a tiny "Catch-all" icon. Clicking on it once will activate the feature, clicking it for a second time will disable it. Since you can have just one such catch-all mailbox per domain, our system will alert you if you already have a different one with this feature enabled or if you’ve got enabled email forwarding.