Category: Technology

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 

http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=12096