Posted By Mitch Webb on September 22, 2008

Understanding Email Aliasing

Email aliasing is a method that forwards emails sent to one email account to another email account. It is similar to the post office forwarding snail mail from your old home address to your hew home address when you move.

For example, let’s assume that your current Internet Service Provider (ISP) personal email address is: yourname@carolina.rr.com. You are also the owner of a business with a web site. You have purchased a domain name and web hosting service and wish to set up different email accounts for customer support, sales support, information about your services, and jobs opportunities. You have four different business email addresses. Your email addresses are support@yourcompany.com, sales@yourcompany.com, info@yourcompany.com, and jobs@yourcompany.com. In order to read all your email you would need to set up and check five separate email accounts, one for your personal email and four for your business. This can be tedious.

A better solutions would be to use email aliasing. Instead of opening and reading five email accounts you would only need to open and read one email account. Using email aliasing, all your business email will automatically forwarded to your personal email account yourname@carolina.rr.com. You can also use email aliasing to create a new person email address such as yourname@yourcompany.com. You now have a permanent personal email address. You can change your ISP without notifying all you personal and business contacts of the change. You simply contact your web hosting company and have them change the address where your email is being forwarded to. The change will be totally transparent to your existing contacts.

Email aliasing provides additional advantages. Email accounts on a server cost money and take up server disk space. Email aliasing allows the web hosting companies to charge less for their web hosting services. If you need affordable web design services and/or affordable web hosting, please consider Cire Web Site Design & Hosting. They have been in business since 1996 and have a proven track record and longevity.

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