{"id":159,"date":"2009-07-14T09:18:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T13:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps4rent.com\/support\/?p=159"},"modified":"2014-07-22T16:43:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:43:11","slug":"000057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/kb\/article\/000057","title":{"rendered":"Creating Catch All account equivalent for hosted Exchange e-mail"},"content":{"rendered":"

How to create in hosted Exchange the equivalent of Catch All account in POP e-mail <\/strong><\/p>\n

Due to the following reasons we DO NOT<\/strong> provide CATCH ALL<\/strong> account feature but we suggest a workaround using aliases.<\/p>\n

Reason:<\/strong><\/span> Catch-all account is essentially used in POP based e-mail services.\u00a0 All e-mails which have your domain name but no mailbox are directed to the catch all account.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 if you have an e-mail address as smith@jonhdoe.com<\/a> and if somebody sends an e-mail to sith@johndoe.com<\/a> then this mail will land in catch all account as you don’t\u00a0 have an e-mail address as sith@johndoe.com<\/a>.\u00a0 This sounds great; but has huge drawback.\u00a0 One scenario is if a spammer gets your domain name then he can send millions of mails to your domain all landing into your catcall account.<\/p>\n

Workaround:<\/strong><\/span> We understand that you might need something similar to a catch all account.\u00a0 As an alternate, you can create as many aliases you want and there are no additional charges for setting up aliases.\u00a0 You can create aliases\/contacts like sales@johndoe.com<\/a>; news@johndoe.com<\/a>; and have them redirect to specific mailboxes.\u00a0 The mailbox can be inside or outside the Hosted Exchange environment or even a e-mail address like Hotmail; Gmail and so on.<\/p>\n

Reason:<\/strong><\/span> Hosted Exchange is used far more by SME’s; Corporate’s and individual business users.\u00a0 Due to privacy issues; catch all accounts are not preferred by business class e-mail users.\u00a0 For example:\u00a0 If an important document has been sent by your business partner and he mis-spelled the e-mail address; then its best that a bounce back goes to sender so that the sender realizes that he made mistake and resends the document to the correct e-mail address.\u00a0 In case of catch-all account; the sender may not know that he made a mistake by sending it to the wrong address and you might wait to get the urgent document and will not get it as the mail would go into the catch all account.<\/p>\n

Related Links :<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hosted Apps \u2013 Exchange SharePoint<\/a><\/p>\n

Business Email Hosting<\/a><\/p>\n

Hosted SharePoint Exchange Online Services<\/a><\/p>\n

Free SharePoint Hosting Application Templates<\/a><\/p>\n

Hosted Exchange Provider<\/a><\/p>\n

Outlook Exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How to create in hosted Exchange the equivalent of Catch All account in POP e-mail Due to the following reasons we DO NOT provide CATCH ALL account feature but we suggest a workaround using aliases. Reason: Catch-all account is essentially used in POP based e-mail services.\u00a0 All e-mails which have your domain name but no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1043],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exchange","category-exchange-feature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apps4rent.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}