Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Google Email Aliasing

Did you know that you can alias with Google mail? Just add a "+" sign.

For example:
userName@gmail.com = username+bonehead@gmail.com = username+bonehead.whatever@gmail.com

This is actually a great, great testing mechanism, for those of you who may have to do software testing involving outbound email. This, coupled with the filtering mechanisms allow you to apply a label for all incoming messages addressed to username+whatever@gmail.com.

Vandahful, dahling. On the other hand, I'd *really* prefer that they used a "-" instead of a "+" for ergonomic reasons, but I shouldn't complain at all.

1 comment:

eingy said...

You can also use it to find out which of the websites you sign up with are selling your email address, then block them once you find out.