The 'magic' about an email address is in the @ sign.

It is that symbol which tells the computer that a series of letters and/or numbers is an email address.

The letters or numbers that follow the @ come from the domain name - many individual addresses can be attached to each domain name.

The letters or numbers that precede the @ represent the individual address.

Emails are stored on computers (called "mail servers") that are permanently connected to the internet.

Each user's email program 'calls' the mail server and collects whatever emails are waiting for it

(i.e. for the individual addresses set up in that program).

Email addresses can be real (technically called "Pop3) and properly hosted on linked to a mail server.

Or they can be 'alias' - consisting of names associated with a registered domain. 'Alias' addresses do not hold emails, but forward them to an alternative location, such as a webmail account (e.g. Hotmail or Yahoo).

Duport Associates can set up, and advise on, both Pop3 and alias emails.