Looking for general information on email addresses?
A catch-all or wildcard address is one that allows all mail to any address at a domain to be filtered into a single account. You can then use rules based on the To address of a message to sort mail into separate folders if you need to.
These types of addresses are useful if you'd like to have separate mail identities for sales@mydomain.com, support@mydomain.com, accounts@mydomain.com, but without adding extra users on your account.
To set up a catch-all address:
- Go to Settings → My email addresses.
- Create a New address.
- Set the email address to be
*@<domain.tld>and click Continue. - Optional: update any other options as required. See the email addresses page for more information.
- Click Save.
In addition to receiving all mail addressed to your domain, you can also send mail using wildcard addresses. When sending from a wildcard address, you'll be able to manually type the From address (to sales@mydomain.com or accounts@mydomain.com, etc) when writing a message.
If you only have a few addresses you receive from and send to, it may be easier just to set up individual addresses.
If you have both a wildcard address and a specific address, incoming mail will be delivered to the specific address.
If you want to stop receiving mail to a specific address at the domain with a wildcard address set up, you can disable that one address. To do so:
- Go to Settings → My email addresses.
- Create a New address.
- Set the email address to the one you'd like disabled and click Save.
- Then go to Settings → Team & Sharing → Team addresses.
- Click Edit next to the address you'd like disabled.
- On the following page, click Show advanced preferences.
- Select the check box under Disable and click Save.
Mail sent to this address will be bounced. Delivery will continue for mail sent to all other addresses at the domain.