What is an email alias, or aliasing?
An email alias differs from a POP3 address or account in a number of ways. First and most important is the fact that an alias does not “hold” mail like a POP3 account, nor can email be retrieved from an alias. Let’s assume you have only one POP3 account, but want to have several email addresses. This is what email aliasing is designed to facilitate. Assume your POP3 account is bill@mydomain.com. However, Bill would like for people to think that he has a business. A rather large business. He advertises that folks can contact his “company” by sending mail to sales@mydomain.com, support@mydomain.com, steve@mydomain.com, jessica@mydomain.com, etc. Every one of these addresses is called an alias. Anything sent to them will be immediately forwarded to bill@mydomain.com. Consider the analogy to renting a P.O. box at your local post office. Let’s say you rent box number 305. This is the only physical mailbox at which you receive mail, but mail addressed to anybody or anything, P.O Box 305, Cit
