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What is meant when Yahoo asks for an alternate email address?

April 26, 2017alternate asks email address meant yahoo

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What is meant when Yahoo asks for an alternate email address?

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The alternate email address is your real email address outside Yahoo. For example, Yahoo lets me receive mail as donlibes@yahoo.com. However, I told Yahoo that my alternate email address is don@libes.com. I have enabled forwarding so that any mail to donlibes@yahoo.com gets sent to don@libes.com. Note that don@libes.com is actually another alias that sends my email to other places depending upon what the mail is. For example, NIST-related things are sent on to libes@nist.gov. But Yahoo doesn’t know or care about that. No, I have no idea why Yahoo chose the word alternate. It’s not intuitive to me, either.