The address an alias forwards to is called a recipient. You can have several, and each alias can point at a different one.

Adding a recipient

• Open Recipients and add the address.
• We send a verification link to it.
• Open the link. Until you do, that address receives nothing.

Verification is not a formality. Without it, anybody who knows your account could quietly point your mail at an address of theirs, and the first sign of it would be your mail no longer arriving.

Why several

The common reason is separation. Shopping to one inbox, family to another, work to a third. It also means a single provider outage does not stop everything you receive.

An alias with no recipient set uses your default, which is the address you registered with. Changing the default changes where those aliases go, immediately and with no other side effects.

Sending one alias to more than one inbox

An alias can have several recipients. Every message is delivered to all of them, which is how a shared address for a household or a small group is usually set up.

Removing one

Removing a recipient does not delete the aliases pointing at it. They fall back to your default recipient, so nothing stops arriving.

If a recipient address stops accepting mail, we stop trying: repeated hard failures leave a record in Failed deliveries, which is the fastest way to see that the problem is at the far end rather than here.