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Two Hidden Ways to Get More from Your Gmail Address
Posted by TimSlavin at May 19, 2008
"I recently discovered some little-known ways to use your Gmail address that can give you greater control over your inbox and save you some time and headache. When you choose a Gmail address, you actually get more than just "yourusername@gmail.com." Here are two different ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail:
- Append a plus ("+") sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
- Insert one or several dots (".") anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)
From the Official GMail Blog. I used to create custom email addresses when signing up for email newsletters and other things online to track misuse, until I had to reconfigure my mail to avoid spammers using the same capability to relay spam. So here's another way to use custom email addresses to track misuse, this time with your Google Mail account, which is free and easy to use. Indeed, with Google Docs and a few other of their free tools, you could do most of your computing with a web browser. When Photoshop and Ilustrator are put online, that definitely will be true.
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