GMail & Plus Addressing
Gmail has a neat little feature called “Plus Addressing” that in reality, gives you unlimited emails for use with a single GMail account. It’s also easy to use and can be done on the fly.
Here’s how it works:
If your GMail address is “email@gmail.com” you would simply put “email+word@gmail.com” to create a new email address.
Benefits of Plus Addressing:
- Track who is emailing you and where you signed up by putting the domain/site in place of “word”. You will also easily know if someone is “sharing” your address.
- With GMail filters, you could easily filter the + addresses to specific folders. Or even delete emails if you can’t get off their list.
Drawbacks of Plus Addressing:
Even though the plus (+) is a valid character in the email address as defined by the RFC standard (RFC 822), many providers/sites reject addresses with it.
Bonus GMail Tip:
GMail doesn’t recognize dots in a user name/addresses. So if your address is user@gmail.com you could also use u.s.e.r@gmail.com or any combination of dots between the first and last letter of the user name.
Yeah, kinda pointless but could be fun.
PLUR,
Garrie
P.S. PLUR = Peace Love Unity Respect. The World could use a lot of PLUR.
