Looking for general information on email addresses?
A catch-all or wildcard address is one that allows all mail to any address at a custom domain to be filtered into a single account.
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. You can also use rules based on the To address of a message to sort mail into separate folders.
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: Set any other options for this address. See the My email addresses page for more information.
- Click Save.
In addition to receiving all mail addressed to your domain, you can also send mail using catch-all addresses. When composing a message sent from a catch-all domain, you'll be able to manually type the From address (e.g., sales@mydomain.com, accounts@mydomain.com, etc) or edit the subdomain (e.g. sales@team.mydomain.com).
If you have a specific email address already set up in your account, incoming mail will be delivered to the specific address instead of the catch-all.
Blocking a catch-all address
If you want to stop receiving mail to a specific address at a catch-all domain, you can disable that address.
You can disable a specific catch-all address by following these steps:
- 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.