Email Aliases

Overview

When we receive the email we will check if you have aliases set up. These are rules which mean mail to one email address is sent to another, or to several other email addresses. The can be useful for different email addresses to the same mailbox, e.g. bob@example.com and robert@example.com may want to go to the same person and so the same mailbox. This is also useful for a group email address that needs to go to many people and so many mailboxes. Generally you need a mailbox for each person that receives email. You can set up aliases on our control pages for your domain.

External Addresses

There is no problem in the alias directing to a completely different email address outside of AAISP.

Sending to a Mailbox and Somewhere Else

If you have a Mailbox called bob, and you want email for Bob to go to Bob's Mailbox as well as somewhere else, then you'll need a specific alias to send email to the Mailbox as otherwise the message will only go to the alias.

Take for example: