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By: 100 Great Gmail Hacks for Email Addicts « Hacking Freaks

100 Great Gmail Hacks for Email Addicts « Hacking Freaks — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:05:22 +0000

[...] Create aliases: You can create an infinite number of + aliases for Gmail. [...]

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:16:11 +0000

I knew about the + feature, but not the . hack.

By: manoj kumar

manoj kumar — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:23:24 +0000

this is not working at all for me..
when i m trying to make an account with “+” sign, a message appears that only letters(a-z), numbers and periods are allowd.is there anything wrong i m doing?

By: Wilson Wong

Wilson Wong — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:29:32 +0000

Nice trick, something new for me. cheers

By: Peter Bromberg

Peter Bromberg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:08:42 +0000

Didn’t know this–very useful! Thanks for sharing

By: Julie

Julie — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:07:15 +0000

amazingly useful! thanks!!!!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:44:32 +0000

This very hack causes us no end of trouble. I’m a technology librarian for a public library system in Raleigh, NC. We’ve received complaints from people in Ohio, California, Washington, etc. because they regularly get email notices intended for one of our patrons. Google is supposed to prevent people from creating an account with similar ids, but sometimes this doesn’t work. So johndoe@gmail.com emails sometimes end up with john.doe@gmail.com, and vice versa.

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:56:53 +0000

Word of warning when using the + hack. Twitter may be just fine with addresses that contain a + but there are plenty of other things you can sign up for online that aren’t.

I’ve been locked out of a couple of accounts because I signed up using the + hack for filtering and the site then changed their email validation system and the next time I tried to log in was told I wasn’t entering a vaild email address. Email to tech support sorted out the problem, but it’s made me leery of using this particular trick.

It’s a pity too, ’cause it sure made filtering easy.

By: ellie

ellie — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:41:40 +0000

Nice! Thanks, I didn’t know those.

By: Mike McDermott

Mike McDermott — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:53:56 +0000

Yes – this can be very useful. One thing to remember, though – there is no way to SEND mail as the e-mail addresses created this way — I leaned this the hard way after thinking I was being so clever and subscribing to a bunch of listserv-type lists with one of these hand crafted addresses. But then I couldn’t post anything, as any email I sent came from my base address, and the listserv servers didn’t recognize that as being subscribed.