Cool Gmail Feature: Different email addresses for one account
GoogleSo, I was talking to Conrad yesterday about gmail, and his email address has a "." in it, name DOT othername @gmail.com. And I told him that Google would ignore the "." in his name if he wanted to drop it for some reason.
This was new information to him, but then he told me that you could append a "+something" after your account name, and it would still get delivered to the correct address. New to me!
Example:
- my.name@gmail.com
- myname@gmail.com
- myname+Spam@gmail.com
Mail sent to any of those three email addresses will be delivered to the same account. Now, where this gets cool is that you can set up filters in gmail to handle your incoming emails based off of different email TO's.
What other stuff is hiding in Gmail that I don't know about?
conrad said:
I didn't know about the dots, which is good because some sites will not allow a + in the email address.
Evert said:
Don't get overexcited about GMail on the '+' thing.. thats part of the standard and practically every reasonable mailserver will should support that
paolo said:
It is specified in the RFCs, the pillars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Plus_....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_address#Plus_....
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