How Not To Miss All Your Domain E-Mails

Written by Pavan Kumar on March 7, 2009

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Do you have a domain? If yes, I guess you have your own domain mail ids like you@domain.com, admin@domain.com, info@domain.com etc… But for some reason, you have forgot to setup a contact form on your website and someone wishing to contact you just sends a mail to contact@domain.com which later on will be returned with mailer daemon failure notice :( .

 Such things are not very common, but the chances do exist. I remember of reading some post in Matt Cutts’ blog where he has discussed the way Google may contact webmasters. The mail ids of any domain starting with admin, webmaster, info, contact, support…  are very important and they are the most preferred ids to contact. Google was on an experiment of alerting web owners about penalization and in such cases, they use ids like the ones discussed above.

Instead of creating all such mail ids, you can easily obtain all such mails into your primary mail box. Here is the way you can do it. I use Google Apps and this is very easy in this case. You need to login to the Google Apps account and goto Manage this domain, you can find it at the top right corner next to your mail id. You will now find the Service Settings as shown below.

Google Apps Service Settings

Click on Email and you will be taken to Email Settings page. There you find Catch-all Address. Catch All address is the mail address which all non-existing TO address mails addressing your domain will move to, i.e., if you don’t have a mail id like stupid@domain.com and someone sends an e-mail to that id, you will receive it on the mail id which you have set as Catch-All Address.

catch all address

With usage of this setting you can setup only one mail id for the entire domain and still you will not miss any mails that address to a non existing id.

       

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4 Readers responded to this post

useful info, but i prefer using contact form on my blog.

There is nothing new in this post. But it is quite useful for new users. I would also like to say that, plese provide proper screenshots. The arrow mark in your screenshot is really kiddish. Rest for the post, it was quite useful and intresting. Thanks Pavan.

There is nothing new in this post. But it is quite useful for new users. I would also like to say that, plese provide proper screenshots. The arrow mark in your screenshot is really kiddish. Rest for the post, it was quite useful and interesting. Thanks Pavan.

This is certainly very useful for me, will right away implement it. thanks Pavan.

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    Pavan Kumar completed Engineering in Electronics and Communication in the year 2008. He is very enthusiastic and keen to work on different aspects of computer, internet and mobile related fields. The articles here reflect his creativity. This blog was started as a showcase of solutions for different problems and today it has got a good reputation in the blogosphere. Read More...

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