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What are Email Aliases (Forwarders)

	What are Email Aliases (Forwarders)? Email Aliasing (forwarder) is a convenient method of creating multiple email addresses for a single POP3 mailbox without having to create a separate POP3 mailbox for additional email names. For instance... If your primary email address is yourname@yourdomain.com you might also want to accept email as yourfullname@yourdomain.com or info@yourdomain.com etc
	By creating a forwarder (e.g. info@yourdomain.com) linked to your main email account (e.g. yourfullname@yourdomain.com), email will be delivered to yourfullname@yourdomain.com, and when you download your email, you will download mail addressed to info@yourdomain.com & yourfullname@yourdomain.com at the same time.
	Use email forwarders to reduce spam - Create a 'throwaway' email alias like nospam@yourdomain.com and use that when signing up on an unknown website or giving away your email address online. Most websites honour your privacy but some may distribute your email address to spam vendors, you never know who will do what when you first sign up, so err on the 'safe' side'. If you do start getting a lot of junk addressed to nospam@yourdomain.com then you can delete that alias, and create another one.. Stopping spam dead in it's tracks! Some of our customers deliberately create an email alias that relates to the website they are giving the email address to, example.. uktrading@yourdomain.com - If you started to get spammed on that address, then you know who the culprit was that leaked, gave away (or sold) that email address to the spammers. We don't give away or sell email addresses by the way! We take your privacy very seriously, and any data that we store is kept securely, and is only used to manage your account with us, and is never ever shared with anyone else.

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