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An alias is a forwarding address to another account. The best way to describe it is by example. You can also point an alias to the POP3 E-Mail account that comes with your Virtual Domain. This would allow your business to receive mail for multiple people by using a filter in your E-Mail program to sort incoming mail into separate folders. But to make things easier, we provide FREE software, accessed through your browser, that let's you add and remove aliases with ease.