An email alias is an email address that you can use to receive email without exposing your primary, personal, or professional email address. When messages are sent to your email alias, you will automatically receive them in your primary email account.

Email aliases are useful when you want to create a short, simple, and generic address for a specific purpose.

For example, let's say Fred Johnson works in the human resources department at his company and is responsible for interviewing potential candidates for current job openings. He may want to post jobs on certain job boards, but he would rather not use his professional [email protected] email address so that he can keep his identity anonymous and also protect his email privacy.

As a solution, Fred could set up an email alias, such as [email protected], and have all incoming emails automatically forwarded to his main email account [email protected].