What is an email alias and why would you have one
An email alias is the From address that arrives in your Inbox that is not your main address.
Many services like iCloud, Gmail, Fastmail allow you to create unlimited aliases by simply adding +anystring to your address.
- Example of a main email address: bob@gmail.com
- Example of a main email addresses alias: bob+askmeanything@gmail.com.
This allows you to make sure emails to that address are properly filed and don’t clog your Inbox.
Bob might have a mail-to: on his blog that asks random people to “Ask anything”. Since Bob is a really successful blogger, having all those emails arrive and stay in his Inbox would be a disaster so he has a SaneBox email alias filter that redirects those emails to his @SaneAskBobAnything folder.
Or if you have a work address and home address going to the same Inbox, you can have the work stuff redirected to @SaneWork by creating an email alias filter.
You could link to various articles about all this stuff.
If you are one of the last three people on earth to have only a single email address, this article won’t matter to you :-)”
What is SaneBox alias filtering?
SaneBox finds the addresses at which you apparently receive email and thinks of those addresses as yours. This could be your regular email address, alias add-on addresses you create through your host, email addresses you set up to forward or that are forwarded to you, or even distribution lists that you are on.
Keep reading: See how you can Add a new alias entry and set, so emails sent TO that address will be processed to the Sane folder of your choice.
We’ll also show you how to choose to have SaneBox not think of a certain listed alias as one of your own addresses. (Use the “Is this you”: Yes / No). That way you can decide not to have specialized SaneBox processing on any particular addresses listed.
How to Add or adjust Aliases
Choose Settings, on your SaneBox menu, and select Email Aliases.
Add an Alias: This screen shot shows where you can type in any alias address you receive email at (in this email account on SaneBox.) Then click Add to include it as part of your SaneBox processing conditions.
And you can enable or disable custom SaneBox processing for any alias at any time: Of course SaneBox does try to detect your aliases. If we get it wrong or if certain alias addresses are no longer valid, click on “No” (under the “Is this You” column.)
Allow training to override
This controls what trainings are allowed to override the alias settings. You can redirect all emails sent to username@domain.com to a particular Sane folder but you need to correctly set “Allow training to override” to be able to train particular senders to other Sane folders.
There are three options:
- Default - Only trainings from the target folder to a DIY folder or SaneBlackHole will be active. As the name implies, this is the default behavior for alias filtering.
- Allow - Allow any sender to this alias to be trained to any Sane folder. For example, you may train certain senders to your Inbox, even if they email your filtered alias.
- Disallow - Do not allow any sender to this alias to be trained away from this target folder.
It doesn’t allow me to choose a folder.
If your screen looks something like this, you’ll need to enable SaneLater, SaneBlackHole and/or create one of our DIY folders.
Have questions? Contact our support team!