Rudi Shumpert : Code By Numbers » Gmail http://www.rudishumpert.com Adventures in web development and analytics Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:13:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Nearly limitless email address variations with one Gmail account.http://www.rudishumpert.com/2009/08/22/nearly-limitless-email-address-variations-with-one-gmail-account/ http://www.rudishumpert.com/2009/08/22/nearly-limitless-email-address-variations-with-one-gmail-account/#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:57:57 +0000 Rudi http://www.rudishumpert.com/?p=92 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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