Create an email address alias

This guide explains how to create an alias, i.e. a variant of your usual email address without having to add a new address to your existing Mail Service.

Preamble

• The number of aliases per email address is limited to 50.
• To change what's coming after the arobase @, use of the aka areas.
• An alternative feature is presented here.

Operation of an alias

It is possible to create alternative versions of your email addresses, by modifying what comes before the arobase @.

For example:

• john-peter.smith@domain.xyz is a long email address...

It can be shortened and used as follows:

• jps@domain.xyz

In this example we must therefore create a aliases "jps" on the address "john-peter.smith".

Then if a person writes to jps@domain.xyz, his message will arrive in the box of the main address (john-peter.smith@domain.xyz).

If a person writes to john-peter.smith@domain.xyz AND jps@domain.xyz in copy (CC), his message will arrive Double in the box of the main address (john-peter.smith@domain.xyz).

Add an alias from the Mail Infomaniak Web app

Prerequisites

• Having permission to managing aliases: if you had been invited on Web app Mail Infomaniak (online service) mail.infomaniak.com)in order to manage your address, it is possible that the Mail Service Manager will have youwithdrawn this right from its admin account.

Then to add an alias:

1. Click here to access the web app Mail Infomaniak (online service) mail.infomaniak.com).
2. Click on the icon Parameters ‍‍ Top right.
3. Check or select the relevant email address from the drop-down menu in the left side menu.
4. Click on Alias 
   
5. Click on Add an alias to create a variant of your email address
6. Click on Add

Add an alias from the Mail Service

To access the Mail Service:

1. Click here in order to access the management of your product on the Manager Infomaniak (Need help?).
2. Click directly on the nameallocated to the product concerned.
3. Click on the email address concerned in the table that appears.
4. Click on the tab Redirection and Alias or from the left side menu on Redirect and Alias.
5. Click the blue button Add an alias:
   
6. Enter the desired alias (which comes before the arobase @).
7. Click on Validate to save changes.