What Is A Yahoo Email Alias?
A Yahoo email alias is simply another Yahoo email address you can use as a disguise for your main Yahoo Mail account that contains your Yahoo ID. So instead of giving your yahooid@yahoo.com out to receive messages or using it in the From: field when you send messages, you would use your own yahooemailalias@yahoo.com address instead. Any messages sent to your Yahoo email alias will be automatically received in your main Yahoo Mail account. Likewise, any messages you want to send from your email alias can be done from your main Yahoo Mail account.
How to Create a New Email Alias on Yahoo Mail
How to Send Emails from Your Yahoo Email Alias
Unlike some other email platforms, Yahoo Mail allows you to both send and receive email messages from your email alias. Email aliases typically act as forwarding email addresses only, meaning that they’re usually used just for receiving email.
Your name: This will be shown in the emails that you send.A description: A brief description like, “extra account.“Reply-to address: Choose whether you want to receive replies from messages sent via the email alias back to the email alias or to your main Yahoo email address.
Create Additional Yahoo Email Aliases for Other Purposes
Yahoo Mail only allows you to have one main email alias that you can both send and receive messages from, but there are two other types of email aliases you can create for specific types of email activities. On the Yahoo Mail app, tap the colored pencil icon in the bottom right.
Send-Only Email Addresses
Located under the main Email alias label in the Mailboxes section of your settings, you can create up to 10 additional email addresses that you can use to send messages from. Just select Add under Send-only email addresses to add an email address. When composing or replying to a new message, simply select the dropdown arrow in the From: field to select your send-only email alias.
Disposable Email Addresses
You’ll find Disposable email addresses under Send-only email addresses in the Mailboxes section of your settings. A disposable email address is supposed to be used for receiving third-party newsletters and helps you maintain control over privacy and spam. You can create up to 500 disposable email addresses through various services, which will be delivered to your inbox — unless you set up filters to be delivered to other folders. When you want to stop receiving messages from a disposable email address, you can easily delete it.
