What is an E-mail Alias?
This information in this article applies to: SmarterMail Email An e-mail alias is one or more additional names that direct mail to an e-mail address. For example, if your e-mail address is jsmith@yourdomain.com, you can create aliases john@yourdomain.com, johnsmith@yourdomain.com and john-smith@yourdomain.com to deliver mail to your jsmith@yourdomain.com mailbox.
An e-mail alias is an extra e-mail address attached to an existing mailbox. With the usage of an alias you may have multiple e-mail addresses, without the need for a separate username and password for each address. All of your mail is instead delivered to the one mailbox that you check on a regular basis. E-mail aliases are a win win situation for anyone who has the need for multiple addresses. By using an alias you will be able to lower the amount of the time required to check and respond to e-mail for multiple addresses. The only downside to using an alias is that all replies will appear to come from one address, the one designated as the primary.
Aliases are useful because they allow your electronic correspondents to send mail to you without having to specify the specific machine on which you receive mail. Also, if the machine on which you receive and send mail forwards all mail to the JHU mail hub (jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu), your real address can be automatically rewritten to appear to correspondents as if it came from your alias. In addition, if your real email address changes and you register this change with the email hub, your correspondents will continue to use your email alias without knowing the change in your email address. Finally, standardized aliases, e.g. firstname.lastname@jhu.edu, permit consistent addresses within an institution. For example, if Mike Sepanski reads mail at mike@deptsys.ai.jhu.edu and creates an alias: mike.sepanski@jhu.edu, people can send electronic mail to mike.sepanski@jhu.edu and it will be forwarded by the mail hub to mike@deptsys.ai.jhu.edu transparently. If Mike then replies to this mail, provi
An e-mail alias is a type of forwarding. An alias will forward mail sent to an e-mail address based on your domain name to an actual e-mail mailbox. This allows you to have several or many e-mail accounts attached to the same e-mail mailbox. For example : For Mr. Anderson, the following e-mails will all be forwarded automatically to the same mailbox : • anderson@hisdomain.tld • m.anderson@hisdomain.tld • mranderson@hisdomain.tld • mr.anderson@hisdomain.tld • etc… Customer Care Do you need more information on this topic?, Contact Gandi Customer Care Error Have you spotted an error in this answer, or think that it is outdated? You may start a support ticket, and our Customer Care staff will update it as soon as possible. Note: No support request sent to this e-mail address will be replied to. To contact Customer Care, please use our online form.
