I have an ancient domain that for years has been hosted with a company that allowed wildcard email forwarding - so *@example.com was forwarded to my gmail. So over the years, I’ve just used a new email address for every signup of anything.
Sadly, the company is getting out of hosting, so I need to move the domain somewhere. The commercial email hosting I’ve seen seen around is all paid for per mailbox.
Is there a commercial email host that would allow a wildcard like that?
I have low desire to run my own email hosting, but perhaps if it’s just a bunch of forwards that might be simpler?
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If you just wanted email forwarding, cloudflare support it. If I remember correctly, it’s included in their free plan
https://improvmx.com/ may be what you want.
Great suggestion, thanks. For anyone reading through, it looks like it will just forward all the emails for a domain to a single email address, for free. That’s definitely what I want for one of my domains. But the other one I’ve used some addresses for family, so that will have to go through a provider.
Not sure if that is what you mean, but you can also add different “redirection targets” for different addresses on the same domain in the free tier.
Ah yes! That’s exactly what I had & need. Thank you.
Also - lol. I assumed this was a screenshot of your domain, and I was like, hang on…
If you move to office 365, it is possible to create an email transport rule to handle this. Effectively any non existent address gets sent to the mailbox your specify.
Yes, they aren’t the cheapest option, and it gets meme’d that it should be called office 364,363, etc, but it is a solid service.
Depends on what you’re after but I recently switched to Protonmail and they allow you to use your own domain and set up a catch-all. If you like what they’re offering in terms of encryption and all, it might a great solution for you.
You also get access to their other products too, like their VPN.
I use zoho for email, they have that feature in the free tier
Oh man! Zoho was what I was looking at - I just couldn’t see that in the feature list. Thanks.
A lot of cPanel hosting includes email with wildcard capability. I set it up sometimes for clients. Feel free to DM me if you have any questions.
You might want to transfer your domain to another registrar. I use namecheap and they have a “catch all” option that’s free to use. You just set a single forwarding email and everything sent to your domain arrives there.
Good idea, and that was my first plan too - but it turns out .au domains (that have lots of rules) are limited to a small number of registries - not including the popular US ones.
I also have a different address for every account I have, I’m currently using cloudflare to forward everything to my gmail address, using SMPT in gmail I’m also able to send from those addresses in case I need it.
Downside is I need to enter SMTP for each e-mail address I want to send from, but i really only ever send from info@. Spam wise there’s no issue if you’ve set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC records properly.
Thank for the diagram. That looks like a comprehensive solution for my issue - and includes sending on one account, which I used to do before google started flagging them all as suspicious.
Google Domains has catch-all redirect email, and is on the cheap side I’d say.
If you haven’t read the news: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/16/23763340/google-domains-sunset-sell-squarespace
Ooops no, I wasn’t aware. Drats, Google again doing Google things.
