Looking for general information on aliases?
A catch-all or wildcard alias is one that allows all mail to any address at a custom domain to be filtered into a single account.
These types of aliases 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 alias:
- Go to Settings → My email addresses.
- Click Add address.
- Click Create an alias.
- Enter an asterisk (
*
) in the field, and choose your custom domain from the dropdown. This should look like*@<domain.tld>
. Click Create alias. - A new screen will appear when you can set delivery and composing options for this alias. See the My email addresses page for more information.
- When you're ready, be sure to click Save.
In addition to receiving all mail addressed to your domain, you can also send mail using catch-all aliases. 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 alias already set up in your account, incoming mail will be delivered to that specific alias instead of the catch-all.
If you have address actions set up for a catch-all alias, the address actions will be applied to any messages caught by the catch-all. If a specific alias at that domain already exists, the address actions will not be applied to messages sent to that alias.
Blocking a catch-all alias
If you want to stop receiving mail to a specific alias at a catch-all domain, you can disable that alias so that any messages sent to the alias will bounce.
You can disable a specific catch-all alias by following these steps:
- Go to Settings → My email addresses.
- Click Add address.
- Click Create an alias.
- Create the alias you wish to disable and click Create alias. On the next screen, be sure to click Save.
- Next, go to Settings → Users & Sharing → Aliases.
- Click Edit next to the alias you wish to disable.
- Click Show advanced preferences.
- Find the Disable section and select the check box to reject all mail sent to this address.
- Be sure to click Save.
Mail sent to this address will be bounced as undeliverable. Delivery will continue for mail sent to all other addresses at the domain.