Email address alias??

[lex]

I would like to setup an alias for one of my email addresses.

Example I would like info@myplace.com to go to admin@myplace.com

Where do I do that?

[Dave]

If you click on the mail icon in cpanel, you should be able to choose "Forwarders" then you can click "Add Forwarder":


Enter info or the first part of the e-mail address that will be forwarded in the first field.
Choose myplace.com or the required domain from the drop-down list.
Enter admin@myplace.com or the full e-mail address that the forwarder will forward mail to in the second field.
Click on the Add Forwarder button.


(Excerpt from http://bluehost.com/help/Forwarders.htm)


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[jetta]

Many servers offer email aliases, which offer the ability to send or receive through an account that is not actually a separate POP.

I have not seen the ability to create an alias in our BlueHost control panel, so it probably is not possible. However, if you know a way, we'd love to know about it.

:)

[channeler]

I have not seen the ability to create an alias in our BlueHost control panel, so it probably is not possible. However, if you know a way, we'd love to know about it.
Forwarders are the same thing as the aliases of which you speak, just a slightly more explicit term. They allow you to forward any username (alias) to any account you wish.

[jetta]

Actually, Aliases and Forwarders are not the same thing. You can send and receive email through an alias. To my knowledge, it is not possible to send email from a forwarder address.

[felgall]

I have sent emails from forwarder addresses since moving to Bluehost.I just set up the same forwarders as I had aliases set up at the old host (which used Plesk) and everything works the same.

[tui]

Actually, Aliases and Forwarders are not the same thing.

They most certainly are not the same, but if you don't have this @ mysite.com set up as a physical email address and you foward it to that @ mysite.com it works the same as an alias.

If however you have this @ mysite set up as a physical email address it will send a copy to both this and that.

[AfroJoJo]

They are basically the same thing. They do the same thing.

[felgall]

Forwarder is the cPanel terminology for an email alias. In cPanel a forwarder works exactly the same as email aliases do elsewhere. The only difference is that cPanel allows you to set up an actual email account for an address as well as defining that the address should forward to a second address. If you do that then the emails will end up in both accounts. Other systems that define aliases directly on the email account do not allow for the emails to go to two separate accounts. Provided that the address is defined as either an account or a forwarder you can send from the address via BlueHost. The email address does not need to be defined as either in order to be able to send from it via other mail servers.

[joanna]

Hi from another newbie. I am having similar issue and can't find answer in help or on forum (yes, i did search). What is the difference between a forwarder and a redirect?

I am trying to forward dianne@myname (which I created) to dianne@aol without leaving a copy on bluehost server, and without bypassing spam filters. I see that it isn't possible to delete server copy when using forward, and it isn't possible to filter for spam if using redirect.

I got creative with redirect and added 2 rules, one to redirect to dianne@aol and a second one to discard it. Hmmm....that didn't work.

I have now told dianne, she needs to fetch it using pop3 or IMAP, instructing AOL (if it can even do it) to delete copy on the server. Also she needs to set preferences to reply from the email address to which it was addressed, so her replies do not come dianne@aol. Gmail can do all this, but I don't use AOL, so I am not sure if it can, or of best way to configure this.

Finding out the difference between Redirect and Forward would be a good start, they do the same thing?

Sorry if this is hijacking the thread, but I thought it better than starting new one on largely similar topic.

Thanks muchly

[patchrik]

Unfortunately it appears to that a forwarder only forwards a copy of the email and not the email itself meaning that it leaves a one at the original address so if you never look at the original email it will grow quite large.

[felgall]

If you just set up the forwarder without the actual email account then all the email will be forwarded without being stored.

Unfortunately that will also mean that all the spam will be forwarded as well meaning that AOL will blacklist your BlueHost server for sending spam since the emails will be identified as coming from that address and not their original source. AOL are one of the worst offenders for flagging items as spam that are not spam and for not taking the trouble to trace the genuine spam back to the source so it is just about guaranteed that if you start forwarding to AOL without having an account attached so that the spam filtering runs that the server will be blacklisted before very long.

Simply sending emails to AOL addresses runs the risk of your being flagged as a spammer if an AOL user presses the wrong button.

[gingerwave]

If you click on the mail icon in cpanel, you should be able to choose "Forwarders" then you can click "Add Forwarder":


Enter info or the first part of the e-mail address that will be forwarded in the first field.
Choose myplace.com or the required domain from the drop-down list.
Enter admin@myplace.com or the full e-mail address that the forwarder will forward mail to in the second field.
Click on the Add Forwarder button.


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This is great help. Thx. http://imageplace.info/img/502/w08q1028hnzf/biggrin.gif