Aliases

An alias is an email address you give out instead of your real address. Mail sent to the alias is forwarded to your inbox.

What an alias looks like

If your E4ward account name is alice, your aliases look like:

shopping@alice.e4ward.com newsletter@alice.e4ward.com c74uf89wj@alice.e4ward.com

If you have a custom domain, aliases can use that instead:

shopping@alicedomain.com

Creating an alias

Go to the Forwards page. You can:

Type an alias name of your choice (e.g. amazon, bank, lists)
Click the @ button to generate a random alias

Random aliases are harder for spammers to guess. You can add a label or memo to remind yourself what the alias is for.

Choosing alias names

You can use any name you like. Some people use the name of the site or contact (amazon, newsletter). Others prefer random strings (x7rkf3jdj) so the alias can't be guessed.

The alias name is just the part before the @. The domain is either yourname.e4ward.com or your own custom domain.

Managing aliases

From the Forwards page you can:

View all your aliases
See which inbox (address) each one forwards to
Disable or delete an alias that's getting spam
Change which inbox an alias forwards to

What "forward" means

A forward is a pair: an alias and an inbox address. When mail arrives at the alias, E4ward forwards it to the inbox. You can have different aliases going to different inboxes.

Free accounts can create up to 15 aliases. Paid plans have no alias limit.