E-mail Accounts vs email alias

[slashan]

Since I'm about to sign up with a new web host and different hosts offer different packages I got a little confused with 2 terms:

E-mail-<b>Accounts</B> and email-<b>alias</B>.

What's the difference ?

thanks.

[stufftheme]

email account means your email address and email alias means your user name

if your email is "zack@gmail.com"

than alias is "zack"

[joni27]

An alias is a "fake"; when an alias is created, no mailbox is created - only a forwarder which passes email along to an email account (mailbox) you already have.

[jimfaster]

Well, the "e-mail account" Usually when people refer to a POP3 account.

E-mail alias is typically the agent is the correct address ..

For illustration ...

user1@domain.com can be an e-mail. The real e-mail address of your POP3 account.

user2@domain.com may be an alias. Simply user1@domain.com delivered, and who are resident in the mailbox user1.

I have several domains that all forward to a single POP3 account, rather than having a separate account for each POP3, it is much easier and faster to check a single POP3 account on my E-Mail client to check email ten accounts POP3.

[airbender25]

Itrs really a new information for me..........

[eaton121]

Jimfaster is right. An alias is like a redirection to your real email account.

[adam456]

Disturbance create after reading all the post some people say it is fake (alias) some people says different .Any body can tell me the trust I am little confused.

[pinkypainter]

Email Alias is a virtual email. For instance, you have sample.com as your primary domain, you have also registered another domain, example.com as your secondary domain. Every hosting allow only 1 domain name, therefore you can put the secondary domain as domain alias (some call it parked domain) at your control panel.

When you put example.com as a domain alias, the domain is virtually exist with website and email address whereby it is same as your primary domain, sample.com. For instance, you created an email: adam[at]sample.com from your control panel, your secondary domain is also virtually exist as adam[at]example.com.

On the other word, adam[at]example.com has no mailbox. When people email you to adam[at]example.com, it will appear at adam[at]sample.com mailbox. So, adam[at]example.com is the email alias.

[jacknarris]

Email accounts - You can create unique mail ids and use through the server.
Email aliases - Just an email id which should redirect all the incoming emails to the specified email address.

[jafferydmello65]

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[frank85loo]

Gmail,yahoo and so on.

[SiberForum]

Appears alias cannot be used for sending mail.

[paulcallingwood]

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