Email quandary

[Obsolete Driver]

I would like to establish 50 odd email addresses with one provider, and then when an email is received by them a central email is notified or better still that email is automatically forwarded to the central email.

Is this possible, and if so is it possible for free?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Plusnet use aliases to do this

An alias is an email address in name only: emails sent to aliases get delivered to whichever mailbox you choose.

Say you've got your email address, [e-mail]. You could choose an alias called [e-mail] and point it at the [e-mail] mailbox. Any emails you then send to the John Smith email address will land in the Andrew Smith inbox. The alias just gives you another email address to use for the same mailbox.

To read emails sent to your alias email address, log in to your email account using the username and password for the mailbox you've pointed the alias to.

To set up an alias, go to Manage My Mail and click on Aliases.

[Mr Pointy]

You can create aliases in GMail as well by adding +aliasname after the name section of the address.

Email address: [e-mail]
Aliases: [e-mail], [e-mail] etc. All replies go into the main inbox but you can use filters.

[Obsolete Driver]

Looks promising.

Will I be able to see which alias email address received the email?

[Obsolete Driver]

I've just tried it on my gmail address, and it does!

Excellent.

[cw2k]

Mr Pointy said:

You can create aliases in GMail as well by adding +aliasname after the name section of the address.

Email address: [e-mail]
Aliases: [e-mail], [e-mail] etc. All replies go into the main inbox but you can use filters.

Just be aware not all services support + aliases as some
Incorrectly see them as invalid addresses

[Obsolete Driver]

cw2k said:

Just be aware not all services support + aliases as some
Incorrectly see them as invalid addresses

Awww, burst my balloon why don't you.

It would be with HMRC.

[Obsolete Driver]

HMRC will take the [e-mail] email address.