Gmail Tips & Tricks
Loads of handy tips & tricks my favorite being the following:
Receiving E-Mails without giving your real address
Sometimes you want to use your GMail address on a website, but you fear you will get a lot of SPAM afterwards coming from that website. So instead of creating another address just for those kind of websites, you can very easily alter your address. if your address is my.name@gmail.com, enter on the website my.name+spamers@gmail.com. We will still receive every e-mail, but if the website do send you a lot of SPAMs, you can create a filter for every message sent to this address (my.name+spamers@gmail.com) to go directly in the trash !
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Dec 8, 2005
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4 Comments, add your own...
2. 3baid | December 8th, 2005 at 10:22 pm
That’s dumb, a crawler can be programed to ignore anything after the + and spam directly.
3. Mark | December 8th, 2005 at 11:11 pm
I dont think its meant to be used like that. I think its meant to be used to filter incoming emails. Like for my amazon account i would use myemail+amazon@gmail.com while for my cnn account i could use myemail+cnn@gmail.com etc..
then i can set up a filter in gmail which will label my emails according to what email they sent it to. if i find out that cnn is spamming me i will just have the filter automatically dump it in the trash.
4. Edjamacated Guy | December 9th, 2005 at 1:41 am
isnt it spelt with two m’s? spammers?
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