cool gmail trick

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cool gmail trick

I will have to give this a try, could come in handy.

I found this out today (maybe I’m slow), I needed to have a 2nd email for something but it turns out if you have one gmail email you have infinite possible combination’s. First you can use @gmail.com or @googleemail.com. That’s nice and all but there is something even cooler that you can do. Apparently its dubbed the “plus trick”, for example your email address is example@gmail.com and you need an extra email address all you have to do is example+anythinggoeshere@gmail.com this will still go to example@gmail.com.

@danbaby says you can also do e.x.a.m.p.l.e@gmail.com (periods work too, I confirmed this.)

I guess I’ll never need to make another email address again.

Someone asked for a practical use for this… Lets say a site requires your email but you know its going to spam you. You can set up a filter in gmail to put anything that goes to example+spam@gmail.com to a spam folder. Now you can use that email carelessly :).

Pretty cool huh?

(via this-alien : icodeforlove)