E mail alias

An email alias is an alternative email address that forwards emails to a primary email address. It's a way to create a new email address that is separate from your primary email address, but still receives emails sent to that address.

Here are some common uses of email aliases:

  1. Temporary or disposable email addresses: Create a temporary email address for a specific purpose, such as signing up for a newsletter or a free trial, and then discard it when you're done.
  2. Business or professional email addresses: Create a separate email address for business or professional purposes, such as a contact email address for a project or a customer support email address.
  3. Personal or social email addresses: Create a separate email address for personal or social purposes, such as a email address for a hobby or a online community.
  4. Filtering or categorizing emails: Create email aliases to filter or categorize emails based on specific criteria, such as emails from a specific sender or emails with a specific subject line.
  5. Security and privacy: Create email aliases to protect your primary email address from spam or unwanted emails, or to keep your primary email address private.

To create an email alias, you typically need to:

  1. Log in to your email account provider's website or app.
  2. Go to the settings or preferences section.
  3. Look for the "Aliases" or "Forwarding" option.
  4. Enter the new email address you want to create as the alias.
  5. Choose the primary email address that you want the alias to forward to.
  6. Save the changes.

Some popular email providers that support email aliases include:

Keep in mind that the specific steps to create an email alias may vary depending on your email provider.