E-mail aliases are alternate names for an existing e-mail address. For example, you may have an e-mail account named "info@tennisballs.com" and you wish to receive messages addressed to "sales@tennisballs.com". We could set up a second e-mail account called "sales@tennisballs.com" and in this case you will have to log in to both the accounts "info@tennisballs.com" and "sales@tennisballs.com". Often, it is a better solution to simply forward messages addressed to "sales@tennisballs.com" to the already existing account "info@tennisballs.com" and this way you need to check messages in just a single e-mail accounts.

E-mail aliases are also called "forwarding e-mail addresses". A single e-mail address can be assigned an unlimited number of e-mail aliases.

Last modified 2006-03-02 00:43:52.