Google Apps for Domains used to have a catch-all feature. Now the docs say:
If you’re using another G Suite edition, the Email routing setting with the Route to catch-all address control is no longer supported. Instead, you use the Routing setting to configure catch-all addresses and routing.
but they don't actually have any instructions on how to do it.
Specifically I want to replicate the old behavior which is that if someone sends a message to unknownname@mydomain.com
it gets forwarded to catchall@mydomain.com
in such a way that catchall@mydomain.com
can setup accounts in Gmail and can reply to the messages as unknownname@mydomain.com
.
If I check my legacy Google Apps for Your Domain emails and check the headers of a message sent to unknownname@mylegacydomain.com
I see absolutely nothing in the header that suggests it was forwarded to catchall@mylegacydomain.com
and yet the mails show up in the inbox for catchall@mylegacydomain.com
. This is important because when I reply, if I've added the unknownname@mylegacydomain.com
to my accounts under Settings>Accounts->Send Mail As... then I'm able to reply as unknownname@mylegacydomain.com
and not as catchall@mylegacydomain.com
. For this to continue to work I assume the mail still has to be marked as to: unknownname@mylegacydomain.com
and not to: catchall@mylegacydomain.com
.