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Catch-all and subdomains

Catch-all

With catch-all on, every address at your domain works. Not just the ones you made: any address, immediately, with the alias created the first time mail arrives for it.

This changes how you use the service. You stop going to a dashboard to make an alias. You invent one at the point of use:

  • plumber@yourdomain.com on a form, without opening anything
  • vetsurgery2026@yourdomain.com written on a piece of paper at a counter
  • theregister@yourdomain.com at a newsletter signup

Every address tells you who leaked it, forever, without any effort.

The catch

Spammers guess addresses. With catch-all on, info@, admin@ and sales@yourdomain.com all exist, and they will all get mail.

Two mitigations. Auto-create rules let you accept only addresses matching a pattern, so you can require a prefix like x- and ignore everything else. Failing that, delete the junk aliases as they appear; each one you delete is refused permanently afterwards.

Most people run catch-all with a pattern. Unfiltered catch-all on a domain that has ever been public gets noisy.

Auto-create rules

A pattern that decides which invented addresses become real aliases. Anything that does not match is refused at the door and never becomes an alias at all.

This is catch-all with a bouncer, and it is what makes catch-all practical.

Subdomains

You can also claim a subdomain on our shared domain, giving you anything@yourname.alias.mom without owning a domain at all.

It behaves like a catch-all domain, and it costs nothing. What it does not give you is the portability, which is the main reason to own a domain in the first place. If we vanish, a subdomain vanishes with us.

Think of it as catch-all for people who have not bought a domain yet.


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