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Aliases

What is an Alias?

Your Email account will come with a number of Aliases that you may wish to use as another email address for your account. When an email is sent to an Alias, it will be delivered to your main email addresses inbox.

This is useful if you wish to set up another email address for different contacts, or if your name has changed recently.

Aliases are like giving your house a name. For example, let's say your address is 9 Colne Road, but you have put up a sign calling it The Orchard. Your address is still 9 Colne Road, and your post will still be delivered there. But it is also known as The Orchard, so post addressed to The Orchard will also be delivered.

How many Aliases can my account have?

You can view how many Email Aliases your Account can have by going to the My Account dashboard after logging in. Once here, click on Email Accounts on the left hand side. You will see the Aliases displayed in the Account information:

Your account will include at least one free Alias. If you have upgraded your Account, you will have access to more Aliases. To view how many Aliases each of our Packages includes, you can visit our help guide here.

To edit or set up your Aliases, you can click on the Manage Aliases button. You can find a help guide that details this more here.

 

If you have any questions about Aliases, please contact our helpdesk at help@aluminati.net

Service News

Updated 83 days ago

Problems reported sending emails via Gmail account

14:01 on 10th Jan

We are aware of an issue affecting some users sending emails using a Gmail account when changing the 'Send As' address to the service email address. As the emails are not being sent via our servers they do not include a DKIM signature, which can result in failed authentication checks. This can then result in the receiving server rejecting the email or marking it as spam.This can be resolved by sending emails via our servers using one of the following methods:
  1. Send emails using our Webmail program
  2. Add your service email address to Gmail using SMTP
Please note: SMTP is not included with Free Webmail accounts.You can check which of our email packages you are using by logging into your account and going to the My Account page (see button in the top right of Webmail)If you wish to, you are can upgrade an account so that includes SMTP by please doing the following:
  • Go to the My Account page
  • Click See Upgrades, select a package or bolt on and proceed to checkout.
If you have any questions or need any assistance, please feel free to contact our Helpdesk at help@aluminati.net and we will be happy to help.

Spam/Phishing email warning

13:31 on 14th Nov

We have been notified about a new spam/phishing email. This email has the subject 'Mail Deactivation Alert' and states 'unconfirmed emails will be closed due to the new privacy security update' It includes an 'Upgrade Now' link to avoid account closure.
 
This is not a legitimate email from the university or the support team which manages your email service.
 
Please do not follow any of the instructions or click the link in this email
 
If you have not followed any of the instructions or clicked on a link in this email, please feel free to delete the email. If you have, as a precaution, we recommend you immediatly change your password and run a virus scan on your device.
 
Should you need any support please contact our helpdesk team at help@aluminati.net who will be happy to help.
 
You can also check our guide on identifying scam and phishing emails here: https://www.pidgeme.com/content/help/help.php?showarticle=6232
 
Please be assured that our system administrators are constantly working on preventing such emails as part of their ongoing email security efforts.
 
If you are ever unsure about the legitimacy of an email, please contact our helpdesk at help@aluminati.net who will be happy to check it for you.