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<blockquote data-quote="Ember1205" data-source="post: 1760465" data-attributes="member: 374272">An alias is a whole new email address for which you can set whatever friendly name you'd like - including being the same as the original.Here's another example of changing the friendly name that might help:Say you want to get help from Apple on something, so you send an email to &quot;support @ apple . com&quot;. Let's say that there are two people that monitor that mailbox and can respond back. One is Jane Doe and the other is John Public. At various times, you will receive an email from each of them. ALL of the emails come from the email address that you originally sent your request to. The emails from John, however, how up as &quot;John Public&nbsp; support @ apple . com&quot; while the emails from Jane show up as &quot;Jane Doe&nbsp;&nbsp; support @ apple . com&quot;.They're using ONE email address and representing themselves differently only by the friendly name. This is NOT a situation where aliases are in use - this is a case of only editing the Friendly name. Granted, this is not exactly how the Apple ecosystem would do this, so it's not a perfect example.If I use the example again of a woman getting married (or divorced for that matter) but change one key thing, maybe it will be helpful.Let's assume that Jane Doe has an email address of &quot;noglassceiling@icloud.com&quot;. One day, she gets married to John Smith. With zero reason to change her email address, all she would want to do is update the friendly name from &quot;Jane Doe&quot; to &quot;Jane Smith&quot;. That's it. No changes, no updating friends and family, no need for a new address, nothing. But, everyone she sends email to will now see &quot;Jane Smith&quot; when they get a message. Easy peasy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ember1205, post: 1760465, member: 374272"] An alias is a whole new email address for which you can set whatever friendly name you'd like - including being the same as the original. Here's another example of changing the friendly name that might help: Say you want to get help from Apple on something, so you send an email to "support @ apple . com". Let's say that there are two people that monitor that mailbox and can respond back. One is Jane Doe and the other is John Public. At various times, you will receive an email from each of them. ALL of the emails come from the email address that you originally sent your request to. The emails from John, however, how up as "John Public support @ apple . com" while the emails from Jane show up as "Jane Doe support @ apple . com". They're using ONE email address and representing themselves differently only by the friendly name. This is NOT a situation where aliases are in use - this is a case of only editing the Friendly name. Granted, this is not exactly how the Apple ecosystem would do this, so it's not a perfect example. If I use the example again of a woman getting married (or divorced for that matter) but change one key thing, maybe it will be helpful. Let's assume that Jane Doe has an email address of "noglassceiling@icloud.com". One day, she gets married to John Smith. With zero reason to change her email address, all she would want to do is update the friendly name from "Jane Doe" to "Jane Smith". That's it. No changes, no updating friends and family, no need for a new address, nothing. But, everyone she sends email to will now see "Jane Smith" when they get a message. Easy peasy. [/QUOTE]

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