Useful Email Aliases using Google Mail - a hidden feature in Gmail that you might not be aware of
This is a hidden feature in Gmail that you might not be aware of. Signing up
for various services using the same email address often lead to a leak and you
might end up getting lot of spam emails. This feature in Gmail that you can
use to generate unlimited number of aliases for your single email. So how does
this work?
As I've shown in the picture above, say your email address is
user@gmail.com if you add a + sign after user and before
@ Gmail will ignore those characters and will deliver the
email to user@gmail.com. So, I could register say for Netflix using
user+netflix@gmail.com and would still received email in my inbox. Now,
I can continue to do this for all services and any websites.
So what is the usefulness of this alias email? You can use this to filter your
email. Say if you receive spam from a particular address you know which
web-service is selling your information to third party websites. Say I sign up
for a newsletter for a random website and the email I use is
user+randomsite@gmail.com and I started getting useless junk email on
that address. Then I could auto delete all email received in that address in
Gmail. Here are the steps to create a filter in Gmail.
Step I: On your browser open gmail and in the search bar click the search
options:
Step II: In the search options enter the defaulting email address as shown
below (user+randomsite@gmail.com). Then click create filter
Step III: Now you can select which options you want to do with email received
in that address. Like Archive or delete it.
This is a handy option build in Gmail. If you are using workspace for your
personal domain on Google Workspace the same alias workaround as shown above
is also working.
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