To understand the concept of Email Forwards /
Aliases,
lets consider an example:
Assume you have just created an Email address,
say sales@yourcompany.com where you wish to entertain
all sales queries from your clients. Now, you desire that all mail being sent to
this email address not be collected in a single mailbox, but instead be directed
to the individual email addresses of all your sales team members.
This is where Email Forwards / Aliases are useful. You
can setup all email for sales@yourcompany.com to be
forwarded to any other single or multiple email addresses. This implies that
sales@yourcompany.com is an alias for
multiple email accounts or other aliases.
You can forward email to a specific address to
either a local destination, or a remote one. Hence, mail sent to
sales@yourcompany.com can be forwarded to either
john@yourcompany.com, or
john@hotmail.com, or both! Apart from this, you can also specify wild-carded
destinations for your Email.