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title: "Merged inboxes for every address"
description: "Read every address you hold as one list, or tick the two or three you work out of and keep that narrowed view as a link that survives a reload."
url: "https://openemail.uk/features/merged"
---

[Domains & addresses](https://openemail.uk/features.md#addresses)

# Merged inboxes One list, or the few you answer.

Mail to every address you hold lands in one stream. Tick the few you work out of in the sidebar switcher, or read them all together.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[All features](https://openemail.uk/features.md)

In short

## What is a merged inbox?

A merged inbox, also called a unified inbox, shows several addresses as one list instead of a mailbox each. Every message still belongs to the address it was sent to.

How it works

## Everything, minus the one you unticked

An empty filter means every address, so unticking one leaves you with all the others. The last one stays ticked, because nothing selected is how everything is stored.

## A narrowed view is a link

The selection sits in the URL as ?address=, so it survives a reload and can be sent as a link. Names that no longer resolve are dropped on the way to the server.

## Addresses nobody created get one row

A catch-all domain ends its group with one \*@domain row for addresses that exist only because mail arrived. Tick it alone to read those. Create one yourself and it gets its own row.

What you get

## In the product today

Any combination

Tick as many addresses as you like, across as many domains.

Whole domain, one press

A Whole domain row in each group selects every address on it at once.

Search the switcher

Type part of an address or a domain to find it fast.

Stale links fall back

If no name in a link still resolves, you get the merged view instead.

Good practice

## Getting the most out of it

1. 01
   
   Leave it merged
   
   Read everything in one list and narrow only when one address is the whole job.
2. 02
   
   Bookmark the narrow view
   
   A narrowed list is a URL, so bookmark the ones you use instead of re-ticking.
3. 03
   
   Tick the bucket alone
   
   To read what a catch-all caught, tick only its \*@domain row.

Questions

## Asked often

Keep going

## Works well with

Catch-all addresses

Every address on the domain receives, including ones that have never been created. One switch closes it.

Multiple domains

Point several domains at one inbox, subdomains included.

Share an address

Hand billing@ to the person who does the billing.

Start

## Your domain, your mail.

Point a domain at OpenEmail and read it in a mailbox built around it. The free plan covers one domain.

[Open mail](https://openemail.uk/mail/inbox) [Get Started](https://openemail.uk/signup.md)[Read the reference](https://openemail.uk/docs/knowledge/addresses/merged.md)