But, I can notice here under To: it is to that special email address. You can see it arrived here just like if I had gotten it sent to my regular address. Now let's see what happens when somebody sends me an email to that alias. So I'll hit Done and now when somebody sends me something I'll get it here and I'll get it, of course, in the real mail app here on my Mac. Anything they try to send to that email address will no longer arrive there. Because I don't trust the source maybe and I don't want to give them my real email address now I can go in and delete and get rid of that. I can use it that one time and then maybe get back whatever I'm getting back. I want to have a throwaway email address. So say if I'm asked to signup for something. From that point on any email sent there will bounce. Just like the email address doesn't exist. If I disable it what happens is if somebody tries to send me something there it will bounce. It's just someone can send something to you using that email address and it ends up in your regular email address. So right now any email sent to this email address will actually end up in my inbox just like an email sent to my main email address. Now notice I also have the ability to disable the alias. I can switch between them here and I can see this email address here.
It's says it's created and you can see I've got it there. So I'll use this for online shopping accounts or some account I'm setting up at a store I've never shopped at before. Something like, say, Shopping is a good one. Now this is an email that's going to be So let me go and say I'll stick with my name here. You can see at the bottom here it says you have zero of 3 aliases. In this case it's a demo account I use for these tutorials.
So you can change that to something more professional or less professional. The name that's associated with this account. Notice you'll have information about your email address here. It's useful especially if you have to access your email not on your own computer.īut you can also go down here to Preferences and go to Accounts. This, of course, is the web based version of Mail and you can go and read your email here. Go to and you log on with your iCloud credentials, your ID and password. So, in order to set it up you want to go to in the browser.
Let's take a look at how to do this and why you might want to. Extra email addresses that you can use for a variety of purposes. Video Transcript: If you use as your email service, or even if you don't use it as your primary email service, you have it from Apple. Check out Creating iCloud Email Aliases at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.