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Gordon

John said:
why does my wife's email come to her and my email address

Probably because you do not have truly separate email addresses, they are
aliases of the one master address. Is your email address in the format of
"(e-mail address removed)"?
 
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Brian Tillman

Gordon said:
Probably because you do not have truly separate email addresses, they
are aliases of the one master address. Is your email address in the
format of "(e-mail address removed)"?

That form is neither a guarantee the mailboxes are separate nor that they
are the same. I doubt there is even a convention, let alone a standard, for
mail address format that all or even most ISPs follow for distinguishing
mailboxes.
 
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Gordon

Brian said:
That form is neither a guarantee the mailboxes are separate nor that they
are the same. I doubt there is even a convention, let alone a standard,
for mail address format that all or even most ISPs follow for
distinguishing mailboxes.

Most ISPs that give their customers Alias email addresses have a "master"
account of @username.isp.com with the customer putting anything they like
in front of the "@" symbol. I can't think of any other way of providing
alias email addresses......
 
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Brian Tillman

Gordon said:
Most ISPs that give their customers Alias email addresses have a
"master" account of @username.isp.com with the customer putting
anything they like in front of the "@" symbol. I can't think of any
other way of providing alias email addresses......

That depends solely on the mail server they use. (e-mail address removed) and
(e-mail address removed) are easily made aliases on, say, a sendmail server.
 
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Gordon

Brian said:
That depends solely on the mail server they use. (e-mail address removed) and
(e-mail address removed) are easily made aliases on, say, a sendmail server.

true, but that's not how most ISPs do it.....
 

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