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Forward/be notified of emails sent to nonexistent address on same domain? Not admin. School account.
Talk to your IT folks. There's nothing you can do about this without having administrative privileges for the domain(s) in question.
The easy solution is to correct your address, while keeping the existing ones as secondary aliases in order to avoid problems with people that already mailed you to the misspelled address. Each mailbox can have hundreds of aliases if needed.
As for "catch all" solution, there are some methods they can use, but in this day and age, the amount of spam they will have to deal with will likely be quite prohibitive for implementing those. Especially when talking about educational organizations.
I asked my school IT, and they said that while they can technically do it, they don't want to, because those alternate addresses may want to be used by another student (But I don't see why they can't have them as aliases temporarily, and remove them later if they need to).
Do I have any other options? It'd be nice if I could at least be notified if somebody tries to email one of the misspellings I was planning to add as aliases. Is there any way I can set it up so I get notified? Is the IT admin at least able to see when people attempt to send an email to one of those nonexisting addresses on their domain?
I tried setting up the aliases to have their emails forwarded to my personal Outlook, but it wouldn't let me add any addresses for a school or work domain. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume trying to do some similar solution using a different email provider (Gmail, for instance) would run into the same problem: I don't own the domain, and the email addresses (being nonexistent) would be impossible for me to verify... Unless, of course, the domain admin still receives the emails sent to nonexisting addresses, and could forward me the verification links.
I'm not clear on the difference between Outlook aliases and a catch-all solution. What sort of catch-all solution could I ask the IT department to try? If it's just an issue of me getting a lot of spam, I'm fine with that. I would rather get more emails than I need than miss important emails that are sent to the wrong address.
There's nothing you can do if the IT staff isn't willing to help. Though I don't see any reason why they would deny you adding few additional aliases, then again I'm now aware of their internal policies.
Any address associated with the domain can only be managed by admins from your organization, and you will not be able to use any other provider. The same goes for any "catch all" type solution.