Catch-all Email Account

Posted by Average Joe on January 27, 2009 under Hosting | Be the First to Comment

A feature that is offered by almost all paid for hosting services is the ability to catch all email sent to your domain whether an email address for that name exists or not. Commonly referred to as a catch all account, this is one of the first things that you need to setup. In actual fact it could be the only thing that you setup and redirect all the email from a domain to one of your other email accounts.

You can find where to set this option by logging into your web host Cpanel, and it is included under the Email option called “Default Address”. The following screen will be shown.

The first option is a drop down menu for the domain that you are changing, this should always stay the same unless you have other sub domains. Then you have two options, the first option is to just discard any email unless the email address exists.

You second option is to enter an email address that all the email will be forwarded to if there is no account for that email. In here you can enter an account you have created on this domain or you can enter another email account that you have registered somewhere else. Then click change to save the settings, and a confirmation page will be displayed.