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Nearly limitless email address variations with one Gmail account.

by Rudi Shumpert|Published 22 August, 2009

This is not a new feature, but one that I recently discovered.

With a single gmail account yourname@gmail.com you can instantly set up many many more. How? The Magic lies in how Google handles extra characters in the username.

If your gmail = yourname@gmail.com then all of the following variations below will flow into your email account

your.name@ gmail.com
yourname+kidsschool@gmail.com
yourname+retalierwebsite@gmail.com
yourname+twitter1@gmail.com

and so on.

The other side of this is the ability to set up filers in gmail based on this. So you can choose to auto-delete emails or file them away, or apply a label to them. Like I said, not a new tip, but handy all the same

-Rudi

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Rudi Shumpert

Rudi Shumpert is the Senior Technical Evangelist & Customer Advocate for the Adobe Experience Cloud and is responsible for sharing the vision of Adobe’s Core Services offerings. He has been focused on enterprise-level data governance & implementation best practices for digital measurement & analytics since 2000. His passion for coffee and various pumpkin flavored drinks is legendary, he is one half of the team known as Judi, he never puts Baby in the corner, and he has been known to torment carloads of scouts with loud carpool karaoke versions of Justin Beibers early work. He can be followed on Twitter @rudishumpert

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