: It is possible to wildcard for all distribution emails with GoDaddy? Title is the question. i.e. info@domain.com, sales@domain.com, or any variation of distribution names to be sent to the a single

@LarsenBagley505

What you are after here is what is known as catch-all (as has been mentioned in comments). When this is done you can specify the normal mailboxes you want (such as user mailboxes) and the catch-all will handle any emails not already handled by an established mailbox.

Catch all mailboxes are basically a worst case situation for email and should only be used where no other option exists to handle your needs in a more reliable manner. The issues here with catch all mailboxes include...


If someone tries to email a user and makes a typo they won't get an error back indicating that they should check the email, instead to the sender it will look like the email went through without an issue which can cause more workload on your end trying to forward an email with a spelling error to the correct mailbox.
You will open up your mail service to a significant amount of spam as anyone trying a dictionary attack or brute-force attack to send spam to your mail server will see every single email go through which will fill your server up (basically you will have an unlimited number of email addresses that can be spammed), which can cause issues even with spam filtering in place as a percentage of the spam emails can make it through, and when you are dealing with an infinite number of potential email addresses that can still mean a massive number of spam emails making it through.


Based on your question of forwarding distribution emails to a single email address you would basically take your catch all mailbox and forward all the emails from it to a given mailbox. Having said that unless you are coming up with 50 or more generic addresses then it will be just as easy, and more secure from span, to just create a number of auto forwarder addresses instead of a catch all mailbox. By doing that any emails to invalid addresses will still be bounced back as undeliverable to the original sender but emails to valid generic addresses will be forwarded as per your configuration.

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