Email has been on the top of the daily communication channels list for the contemporary global citizen for more than a decade. Over the years, web hosting companies, engaged to the greatest extent with the provision of email services, have been packing their offering with a growing number of useful features supplementing the existing email functionalities.
All those new email service introductions have contributed a lot to both enhancing and facilitating their customers' email experience. Such features include SPAM filters, working for minimizing the unauthorized access to mailboxes, or Catch-all Emails, which we will examine for you in this article.
The Catch-all email functionality has been created largely for facilitating users' access to a certain mailbox. If activated for a certain mailbox on a domain, the Catch-all option allows for that mailbox to catch all email messages sent to non-existing addresses that contain the domain name in their syntax.
For example, if you set up your mailbox me@my-best-domain.net to be a catch-all one, then any email sent to wrongemail@my-best-domain.net i.e. any mailbox that has not been created for this domain, will be forwarded to me@my-best-domain.net.
Setting up a catch-all option for a mailbox on your domain name has one main advantage. It will help you minimize the amount of lost email messages due to misspelled recipient email addresses. Thus, if a friend of yours, or a colleague, or a customer mistypes your email address he/she will not receive the frustrating Undeliverable or User Unknown messages. Instead, their emails will be forwarded straight to the catch-all mailbox, saving senders' time in trying to figure out what was the correct email, which might eventually make them give up sending the message.
There have been some discussions over the usefulness of the catch-all email service lately. The pessimistically disposed users state that catch-all emails are a double-edged sword feature. In their opinion a catch-all email can do as much harm as good to users. They think this option can be used by spammers to make users think that a malicious email they receive is sent from a reputable company.
Nevertheless, catch-all emails have proven to be the most efficient method for saving lost messages. Whether it is about important messages mistakenly sent to a misspelled email address or to a mailbox that no longer exists, the catch-all option will be of help to ‘guide' them to the right recipient address.
Setting up a catch-all mailbox with NTC Hosting is easy indeed. All hosting plans on this website offer a fully-featured Email Manager interface, allowing you to enable Catch-all for a certain email address in a click. All you need to do is log into your Control Panel, go to the Email Manager section and then fill out the short mailbox set-up form under Create New Email. Pay attention to the Catch-all checkbox - you should mark it to make that particular mailbox a Catch-all one.