Resolved How to add a wildcard [*] to a mail-address? ("catch all")

[jmar83]

Server operating system version

Debian 10.x most current updates

Plesk version and microupdate number

Plesk 18.x most current updates

Hello

The asterisk does not seem to work:



Site:

https://xxx:8443/smb/email-address/edit/id/...

Thank you very much for your feedback.

 

[Peter Debik]

You are looking for "catchall". That can be configured on the e-mail settings page of the domain, not the individual email address:

Mail Settings of Domains

You can configure the following mail service settings for individual domains (Mail tab > select a domain > Mail...

docs.plesk.com

 

[jmar83]

thank you for your feedback. that seems to be a "global" setting that disables to create other mail addresses (they should be excluded from the catchall mail address - so they can be used separately)?

i need:

- a few specific mail addresses
- catch all (all other than the few specific mail addresses).

 

[Kaspar]

- a few specific mail addresses
- catch all (all other than the few specific mail addresses).

That exactly what the documentation describes.

“Mail bounce settings”. When somebody sends an email message to an email address that does not exist under your domain, the mail server, by default, accepts mail, processes it, and when it finds out that there is no such a recipient under the domain, it returns the mail back to sender with an error message. You can choose to:

• Continue returning all such mail back to senders (“Bounce with message” option).
• Forward all such mail to the specified email address (“Forward to address” option). This is also referred to as a catch-all address.
  
  Note that if the outgoing mail control is turned on by your hosting provider, the forwarding address must belong to the same domain for which you are modifying mail bounce settings. If you need to specify an external email address (that is, outside the domain) or set one address for multiple domains, please contact your hosting provider.

The way this works is that you create a mailbox for an domain on which you want to receive all email. Then in the mail settings of that domain you select the option to forward email messages to that specific mailbox. After which all email messages send to an email address on that domain for which no mailbox exist will be delivered to the mailbox you've selected to forward the mail to.

 

[jmar83]

thank you very much for your fast feedback!!