What is an email alias?

If you have a user/mailbox called john, then mail sent to john@example.com will be collected in this box. If john also deals with sales, then he can add sales as an alias. Then any mail sent to sales@example.com or john@example.com will end up in john's mailbox.

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• Add an email alias for a local user
• Add an email alias forwarding to an external email address
• Remove an Email alias

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