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.

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Spam is the term that describes unsolicited advertisements sent by e-mail over the Internet. People who send spam are referred as spammers. Spammers are inundating the Internet with copies of the same advertising message, in an attempt to force the message on the public. The best way to protect yourself in the fight against spam is to learn more about spammers and the email they send.

Spammers

Since it is very inexpensive to send an email message, spammers will send millions of emails. They find it profitable even if only a small number of people respond to their marketing message. Spammers use software programs that automatically search the Internet for email addresses or purchase lists of valid email addresses from unscrupulous sellers. They frequently use phony names, addresses, and phone numbers to disguise their true identities. Spam is frequently sent from foreign countries, making legal action and prosecution difficult. Spammers also sent email illegally through open unsecured networks and use virus software to establish spam relay machines. Spam has cost companies and organizations billions of dollars in lost productivity, equipment, and anti-spam software.

Anti-Spam Software

One of the best ways to eliminate the receipt of spam is to install a good anti-spam software. Anti-spam software analyzes incoming email and using advanced algorithms attempts to identify and filter email it considers to be spam. Unfortunately, it can also end up filtering legitimate e-mail. During the past few years I have tried and discarded many different anti-spam software, but I finally found a piece of software that lives up to its hype. “I Hate Spam” is an absolute necessity for any business or individual that uses Microsoft Outlook and is being buried by Spam. The software is easy to install and automatically loads whenever you open Outlook. “I Hate Spam” will help you to win the battle against unsolicited commercial email.

An email signature is a block of text appended to the end of an email message often containing the sender’s name, address, phone number, web site link or other information you wish to share with your email recipients.

Your email signature is an easy way to show people you take your work seriously and what you’re up to. Adding an email signature is not only an easy and fast way to draw attention to your business, it’s free advertising.

To Create an Email Signature in Outlook

• Select Tools | Options… from the menu in Outlook.
• Go to the Mail Format tab.
• Click Signatures… under Signatures.
• Go to the E-mail Signature tab.
• Click New.
• Enter a name for your new signature.
• You can have more than one signature for different purposes.
• Click next.
• Type the desired text of your signature under Edit signature.
• Click Finish.
• Click OK.
• Click OK again.

To Create an Email Signature in Gmail

• Select Settings.
• There’s a signature option in the middle of the page.
• Type your signature into the box.
• Save your signature.

Now when you start a new email your customized signature will automatically be inserted allowing you to promote yourself and your business.