Originally shared by Lars Fosdal
Your GMail address has a near infinite number of variations!
Did you know that your GMail address can be extended?
It can be a fantastic way to uniquely identify which source that gave away your address to a spammer, but more importantly – it helps you to filter your mail!
Let’s say my address is mymail@gmail.com and let’s say that I want to sign up for a newsletter for something useful – like a site for Silly Walk GIFs,
If I signup for the newsletter with mymail+SillyWalks@gmail.com- that is not only perfectly legal and working, it also means that the mail that arrives, has mymail+SillyWalks@gmail.com in the To: field.
So:
mymail@gmail.com
mymail+ebay@gmail.com
mymail+NYPost@gmail.com
mymail+ScaryWebSite@gmail.com
i.e.
mymail+SomeRandomKeyword@gmail.com
are all working, valid addresses which are uniquely identifiable by you.
#gmail #tip via Patrick Graber