Gmail is one of the most popular email services in the world. It’s free, easy to use, and easy to set up. The Google suite offers users many interesting functions and features to make life easier. The same goes for Gmail. You can link all your accounts in one place or even create an alias to better protect your privacy.
In this article, we’ll show you how to create an alias and review the reasons why you might want to do so. Let us begin.
What is an email alias?
An email alias is just that, an alias. For Gmail users, this can be a secondary email account or a variation of your current email address. Whether you want to protect your privacy or want a secondary account, Google has some tools to help you. There are also solutions that we will show you in this article.
People often use email aliases to avoid receiving unwanted emails from other people or to classify spam.
How to create a Gmail alias
To create an email alias, you have a few options. First, you can set your Gmail address to send from another. The recipient will only see your alias. You can then use one of two solutions to create a temporary alias. We will review all three methods below.
Use Gmail to create an alias
Gmail will allow you to send emails from an alternate email address. Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be a Gmail address. You can use Hotmail, Outlook or something else.
To create a Gmail alias, do this:
- Sign in to Gmail and select the settings gear in the right corner.
- Click See all settings at the top of the pop-up window.
- At the top, click Accounts and Import.
- Next to send mail as click on Add another email address.
- Enter your email address, make sure Treat as an alias is checked and click Next step.
- Complete the verification steps to prove that the secondary account is your email account.
To verify your newly added email addresses, you’ll need to sign in to your other accounts. Check your inbox for the Gmail verification email and click the required link.
When you send emails, your alias will be displayed as the Sender instead of the email account you actually use.
You can use this alias for each message. Change your settings by clicking the Of line in your message. If you don’t see a Of line, click the space next to the recipient’s email address. Then select the alternate address you want to ship from.
Check email from other accounts
Do you want to read your emails in a single inbox? Linking your other alias accounts is easy.
- just go to Settings and click on the Accounts and Import eyelash.
- From there, scroll down until you see Check email from other accountsand click on the Add an email account link and follow the steps.
Temporary Gmail aliases: workarounds
Need a temporary alias but don’t have another account? No problem: you can create temporary aliases in Gmail with a few simple tricks.
- When you add a “+”sign (and some additional text) at your own Gmail address and give it to someone, Gmail will still send any email to that address to the primary address. Then “[email protected]” and “testaccount+spam [email protected]” will receive the email delivered to [email protected].
- You can also use the “.” trick. By adding points to your existing email address, you can achieve the same results as “+”solution above. Just use [email protected] instead of [email protected].
Why would you do this? Easy: Adding this temporary alias allows you to create filters. You can tell Gmail to do different things with messages depending on what the additional text is.
Conclusion
Creating a Gmail alias may seem difficult at first. But once you start doing it, you’ll see how easy it really is. Link your other aliases to send emails from those accounts or set your inbox to read incoming messages from other permanent aliases with a few clicks on the Settings section.
Just remember to keep track of your temporary aliases if you plan to use them. Create filters where possible to avoid clogging up your email with unnecessary messages. And save yourself some hassle by entering an alias instead of your real address if you think a website looks suspicious.
