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Aliases - Aliases or email aliases are email addresses that are associated with another destination email address. They are simply forwarding email addresses, in the case of aliasguard.net all aliases created forward emails to your real recipient email addresses.

Standard Alias - A standard alias on aliasguard.net is any alias that is created automatically when it receives its first email. If you signed up with a username of johndoe and gave out the following alias - hello@johndoe.aliasguard.net then this would be a standard alias.

Shared Domain Alias - A shared domain alias is any alias that has a domain name that is also shared with other users. For example anyone can generate an alias with the @aliasguard.net domain. Aliases with shared domain names must be pre-generated and cannot be created on-the-fly like standard aliases.

UUID Alias - A UUID alias is generated at the parent domain e.g. aliasguard.net and looks something like this - 94960540-f914-42e0-9c50-6faa7a385384@aliasguard.net. UUID stands for universally unique identifier, it is randomly generated string with no inherent logic (this applies to V4). Users who want maximum anonymity may choose to use this kind of alias as it does not include your username or any other identifying information in the email address.

Random Character Alias - A Random Character alias is generated at the parent domain e.g. aliasguard.net and looks something like this - x481n904@aliasguard.net.

Random Word Alias - A Random Word alias is generated at the parent domain e.g. aliasguard.net and looks something like this - circus.waltz449@aliasguard.net.

Deactivated Alias - When an alias is deactivated, any messages sent to it will be silently discarded. The sender will not be notified of the unsuccessful delivery.

Deleted Alias - When an alias is deleted, any messages sent to it will be rejected with the message "550 5.1.1 Recipient address rejected: Address does not exist". Deleted Aliases can be restored.

Forgotten Alias - When an alias is forgotten it is completely disassociated from your account. If the alias is a shared domain alias (e.g. @aliasguard.net) then it can never be restored or used again. If the alias is a standard alias then it can be created again in the future since it will be as if it never existed in the database.

Recipients - Your recipient email addresses are your real email addresses where aliases are forwarded to. You can set a default recipient for your account in your settings, this is where all aliases will forward emails if they have no other recipients attached.

Domains - Domains or custom domains can be added to your account and used to create aliases. You need to own/control a domain name to be able to add it to aliasguard.net.

Usernames - On aliasguard.net the term username can either reference the username that you signed up with or an additional username that you are able to add to compartmentalise your aliases.

Bandwidth - This is the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. On aliasguard.net bandwidth is incremented each time an email is forwarded or a reply is sent. Every calendar month your bandwidth is reset to 0.

GPG/OpenPGP Key - PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) is a public-key encryption program that has become the most popular standard for email encryption. You can add a public key to each recipient on aliasguard.net. This public key is then used to encrypt all emails forwarded to that recipient.

Fingerprint - A PGP fingerprint is a shorter version of a public key. It is used as an easy way to identify public keys and verify that they are correct.