Kitz Forum
Internet => Web Browsing & Email => Topic started by: tickmike on August 30, 2013, 11:57:35 AM
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I have a 'Sub Domain' set up from my ISP (free) and I have various email address's on that domain.
I was on the ISP's website and found some information about a 'Catch All' email address
eg my normal emails would be :-
myemail@myispsubdomain.co.uk etc etc.
So a catch all would be :-
catchall@myispsubdomain.co.uk
So what this does if anyone sends me an email and and its spelt wrong eg myemails@myispsubdomain.co.uk
or info@myispsubdomain.co.uk
or office@myispsubdomain.co.uk
It would go into the 'catch-all' and be sent to the email address you set it up to go to.
Another use would be sometimes you need a 'Throw away' email address so instead of going to say Gmail you could use anything before the @ sign .
eg
I tried abc123@myispsubdomain.co.uk
and in a short time it came into the email address I set the 'Catch All' to go.
Hope you understand that :) and may be of use ;) .
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I do.. and yes catchalls are brilliant.. and make it easy to detect where spam originates from.
Unfortunately I dont think that many ISPs now offer this service, but a lot of webhosts do :)
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I use catchall on the mail which comes through my domains (1&1).