Roopesh's Blog » Spam http://www.roopeshsheth.com A random blog Fri, 30 Apr 2010 05:46:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The GMail “+” trick works for hosted domains http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/12/15/the-gmail-trick-works-for-hosted-domains http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/12/15/the-gmail-trick-works-for-hosted-domains#comments Sat, 15 Dec 2007 23:10:25 +0000 Roopesh Sheth http://www.roopeshsheth.com/2007/12/15/the-gmail-trick-works-for-hosted-domains/ In case you’re unaware, any gmail address has an unlimited number of additional address, simply by appending a “+” sign to the end of the username portion:

joe {at} gmail(.)com <– Primary Address
joe+junk {at} gmail(.)com <– Routed to joe {at} gmail(.)com
joe+anythingelseiwant {at} gmail(.)com <– Routed to joe {at} gmail(.)com

Why is this useful? Many reasons:

  • On the fly, without an admin screen, you can create a new email address (alias) for yourself.
  • You can setup filters in GMail to quickly file/delete/whatever the emails that come in to these addresses.
  • I already get enough spam at my primary address – each time I sign up for something new, I just know it’s more spam coming.

Anyway, I hope this is helpful to someone.

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