Email Aliases And Mailboxes

Email Aliases And Mailboxes Are Notaliases forwarded to one mailbox.Why, then, you
Interchangeable. Using A Mailbox Simply Tomight ask, would anyone ever need more than
Forward Email Could Be Severely Limiting Yourone mailbox? Good question. (Why didn't I think of
Email Flexibility.Whether you're setting up athat?)One reason might be, let's say your aunt
website or an ISP email account, it's important tofrom Wisconsin comes to work for you and you
know the functional differences between emailwant to give her the email address (If the only
aliases and mailboxes. They are notreason you're hiring her is because your cousin
interchangeable, and using a mailbox simply tocan't live without her, you might want to give her
forward email could be severely limiting your emailthe email address ) If you make her email
flexibility.First, it would help to note the differenceaddress an alias (as opposed to a mailbox), then
between a POP (Post Office Protocol) accountevery time you retrieve your email from , you'll
and an SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)also get her email, which was sent to What's
account. Although the ability to send and receiveworse, if you give her access to the mailbox so
email comes with most email accounts, receivingshe can retrieve her own email, she'll also see
email is normally accomplished through a POPyour email. Technically, there's nothing wrong with
(input) account, while sending email is an "SMTP"this. But from a family relations standpoint, this
(output) feature.Mailboxes and email aliases dealmay lead to "technical difficulties" of another
with the POP (receiving) aspect of your email. Akind.So, you make a mailbox, not an alias. (The
POP account is essentially a mailbox. As the termmenu options for setting up aliases and mailboxes
mailbox implies, it's like a real-life mail box, a placecan vary from one service to another, so I won't
to receive your mail (a major difference beingget into that.) Now she can retrieve her email
that email travels at the speed of light whiledirectly from and you can still retrieve your email
regular mail sometimes never sees the light offrom , and neither one of you would see nor
day.) Once in your mailbox, email just sits thereinterfere with the other one's email. This would
until you "retrieve" it. (Some services allowprobably be the best solution; because the last
mailboxes to be forwarded, but then you'd needthing you want is to find out that your aunt is not
another mailbox to receive the email in.)This isreally your aunt, your cousin is not really your
where setting up your "email client" (Outlook,cousin, and that you were adopted, and you're
Netscape email, Eudora, etc.) comes in. By settingnot even you. This can't be good for
up the mail-server, ID and password parameters,business.Email accounts given to you by an ISP
you tell the program where to retrieve your email(like Earthlink, Verizon, etc.) are usually much
from. Many email clients even give you the optionsimpler in construction and less flexible. In a simple
to "leave email on server after retrieval." Thissetup, you might get one mailbox with several
means that you can retrieve your email (with thealiases that automatically get forwarded to the
"leave email ..." option on) on your laptop, whenmailbox. If this is good enough for you, there's no
you're away from home, for example, then later,need to mess with your website's email features.
when you get home, retrieve the same emailOne serious downside to this is if you change
messages on your desktop (where you mightISPs, you'll have to give people your new email
want to keep a more permanent record of youraddresses. While if you use domain-based email
email).Once you retrieve email with the "leaveaddresses and then change your web hosting
email..." option off (perhaps on your desktop, incompany, presumably your domain name will go
the above example), the same email messageswith you and your old email addresses will remain
are no longer available for retrieval; they havevalid.The only question remaining now is, if you
been deleted from the server.Email aliases are achange your ISP, you change your hosting
different animal. Let's say you have a website andcompany, and you change your business location,
you've set up a mailbox "mybox;" so your emaildo your aunt and cousin come with you? Even
address is now Now you decide that your cousin,tech support can't answer this question.by Josh
who works for you, also needs an email address.Greenberger
So you set up an email ALIAS (If the only reasonFrom shopndrop.comJosh Greenberger: A
you hired him is to make your aunt in Wisconsincomputer consultant for over two decades, the
happy, you might give him an email address likeauthor has developed software for such
)This email alias, , MUST be forwarded to aorganizations as NASA's Goddard Institute of
mailbox, or another alias which eventually goes toSpace Studies, AT&T, Charles Schwab, Bell
a mailbox. This is because aliases do not have aLaboratories and Chase Manhattan Bank. Since
"box" of their own for email to accumulate in;1984, the author's literary works have appeared
they are simply forwarding tools.As a result, ifin such periodicals as The New York Post, The
were forwarded to , when you retrieve yourDaily News, The Village Voice, The Jewish Press,
email for you will automatically also get the emailand others. His articles have ranged from humor
for Using this approach, you can have manyto scientific to topical events.