Aliases are alternative email addresses that you can use to separate emails. Instead of using the same address for everything, you set up different aliases for online subscriptions, registrations, newsletters, social media, business contacts and so on. Any category that works for you. You can use your main address for friends and family, or create another alias.
All your aliases are set up under your main email account, and is delivered to your primary inbox. You can even set up filters so that mail is separated into specific folders in your account.
Not only will aliases give you another layer of anonymity, it also gives you control over your information and makes online tracking more difficult. Having aliases can help prevent someone hacking your main email account, and helps protect you from phishing attacks. If one of your aliases starts to receive lots of spam, you can easily delete the alias and set up a new one.
Benefits of using email aliases
- Account security. When there’s a data leak on a website, your other online accounts are protected because you used a different email address.
- Protect you main email address. If there’s a data breach on a site where you’ve registered an alias email, your main address is protected and it keeps your other email addresses safe.
- Decrease spam. If you filter alias email to separate folders, you keep spam out of your main inbox. If you start getting a lot of spam on an alias, you can delete the alias and set up a new one.
- Reduce the risk of phishing. If you get an email from an institution like your bank, you can quickly tell if it’s legit. If the message is to an email address you never gave them, you know it’s a phishing attempt.
- Easy to manage. You can easily set up new aliases and delete old ones. Additionally, setting up separate folders helps organize your email account.
- Keep organized. Create folders for each alias or subject to keep your email account organized.
Did you know that Runbox provides all customers with 100 aliases for their account, regardless of your plan choice? And aliases are unlimited on your own domain name.
Setting up an Alias is easy!
In your Runbox Webmail, aliases can be set up and managed from Account > Aliases. In Runbox 7, aliases are found in Settings > Mail > Email Aliases. Each alias delivers email to your main Runbox account (default), or to another Runbox email address that you manage. You can send and receive mail using an alias, and no-one will know that it is an alias. Aliases do not have a login or any storage of their own, and works from within the main account.
Using Aliases
- Filter email sent to different aliases by filtering them to separate folders. For example, create a folder called Subscriptions, and filter all subscription emails to that folder. Go to Manager > Filter to set it up. (Runbox 7 go to Settings > Filter).
- Forward email for an alias to any Runbox account. This is easy to set up in Account > Aliases. You can also forward email to an address not on the Runbox system.
- Send email from any of your aliases. When you compose a new email in Webmail, you’ll see your aliases listed in the From dropdown menu. If you are using an email program you can usually set them up in the account settings.
- Using aliases with an email client works just like emails sent to your default Runbox address. See Using aliases with an email client for more information.
- Deleting aliases when you don’t need them anymore is easy. We keep a record of it so that you can add it back in the future. Deleted aliases are not available for anyone else to use to protect your privacy.
Please see our help page about Aliases and Profiles if you have questions about setting up and using aliases,