Email Aliases

[JimC99]

Can someome explain how email aliases work ?
Say you get 5 mailboxes from your provider, so you have name1,name2,name3@yourdomain.com,
etc

How come, you can send mail to any nonsense address @yourdomain.com

e.g nonsense@yourdomain.com

This is valid, it works, I tried it.

What's going on ?
What's the point of having aliases if you can
just make it up anyway ?

[Deb]

Aliases will allow you to setup an account for someone else or yourself to receive mail at a different account.

For example let's say your friend 'joe' is going to be answering some of the email. But your friend 'joe' can only check mail from his normal ISP account. You could setup joe@yourdomain.com as an alias. Any mail that went to joe@yourdomain.com would be auto forwarded to whereverJoeis@hisISP.com. Now when mail is sent to joe@yourdomain.com it will NOT go into your root account. But if someone sends mail to joeseph@yourdomain.com then it would go into your root account because there is no such pop or alias made. This helps make it so you do not lose mail due to typo's or mistakes.

The key to anything@yourdomain.com coming into your root account is to help with not losing mail. In addition to that let's say only one person checks the mail for an entire site but would like to make different names for the email sent in so it makes more sense to the visitors -- sales@ info@ general@ etc... you can do this w/o setting up any aliases and it will all just go to your root. (This is generally known as unlimited incoming aliases)

POP Account -- Full account. Mail sent to Pop@yourdomain.com goes only to Pop@yourdomain.com and mail can be sent out from Pop@yourdomain.com (These are the five accounts you can setup)

Alias -- Mail sent to Alias@yourdomain.com goes to some other addy you tell it to go to. Mail can not be sent out from Alias@yourdomain.com only recieved at the addy you tell it. (at fq you can set up as many of these as you need to run your domain)

Root -- Your root account "UserName@yourdomain.com" can send and receive mail from username@yourdomain.com and also receives mail from anything@yourdomain.com -- anything being any addy not otherwise specified.

Full Forwarding would be when someone asks that everything going to username@yourdomain.com be sent to some other addy not associated with the domain.

Hope this helps
Deb

[JimC99]

Thanks Deb,

looks like I've got a lot of reading-up to
do on email procedure http://www.aota.net/ubb/smile.gif