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I’ve only ever seen this with ISPs, and even then, it doesn’t appear to be very common. Some ISPs give you a separate login to access their network, which is your account ID, and then allow you to associate some number of email addresses from that ISP with that ID. Exception 1, kind of: separate ID and address There are a couple of exceptions I can think of, but they are very rare and probably do not apply here. Placing it in two inboxes would be very confusing, even if it were possible, and there’s nothing you can tell from just the email address which account it should be placed in, because the email address is the account identifier. How would email get directed? The email address defines which inbox gets the message. How would you sign in to one account or the other? The email address identifies the account, so there can be only one.

Let’s say you had one email address - say, again - and somehow it had two accounts. Make a new one, you’ve made a new of the other as well. The email address is the account identifier and the account identifier is email address. You can’t change the email address of the account because the email address is the account. There’s no relationship between old and new. You would rather have The answer is simple: you create a new account. Let’s say you have an email address and you don’t like it. A different email address means a different account.Įmail addresses and accounts are inseparable because most of the time, they’re really the same thing. On 99% of the email systems we deal with every day, your email address is your account ID. Your email address is the ID for your email account

Depending on the problem being solved, an additional account, or filters and rules in your email interface, can help organize and route email appropriately. An email address uniquely identifies your email account, so it’s not possible to have one account with more than one email address.