Gmail Bonus Addresses

GMail is now probably the most popular type of service e-mail across the Internet. All people delight in the large storage capacity, great acting anti-spam filter, mobility, ability to integrate with other services (not just Google), and additional options. In this whole rapture we often don't realize the many lesser-known, but how important features of our mailbox. One of these is the fact that our account maintained in fact an infinite number of e-mail addresses, which can be freely used.



Some time ago I flashed on the excavation of the first information of the mechanisms that I describe, but if I did’t attach importance to this. Recently I stood before the problem of where to get additional e-mail addresses and remembered of that possibility. Searching the web I stumbled across in turn to yet another interesting way to present your e-mail address.



Dots

The first way concerns the dots in our logon name. Well, GMail ignores them at all! Take for example my login - wrzasq: you see all of the following e-mail addresses are automatically redirected to my mailbox: wrz.asq @ gmail.com wr.za.sq @ gmail.com wrzasq@gmail.com and all other combinations also.



Suffixes

The second mechanism is discovered by accident. Some time ago I met with the information about the e-mail service offering a sub-account under one login. I wanted to find the information and suddenly I came upon an entry which deals with the same mechanism is in the GMail service. Well, our user name (and before the monkey) may be the sign + (plus) add a string (preserving the accuracy of e-mail address) and your mail will continue to be directed to our inbox. For example, my address could be given as: wrzasq+work@gmail.com or wrzasq+private@gmail.com.



Merge

Both methods can be combined - for example, the remaining of my account I use any combinational address: wrz.asq+work@gmail.com, wr.za.sq+test@gmail.com whether wrzasq+private@gmail.com.







Spoofing

What's our identity? What if we have a registered username name.surname@gmail.com, and someone tries to create namesurname@gmail.com? In brief - he has failed. GMail logins simply treats the dot as those without dots, thus registering as name.surname actually record as namesurname. We may even try to login. So no one is likely to establish an account under our spoof, because in reality we all logins automatically. In turn, the username + suffix label can not be registered. So we are safe.



Cataloging

Although all of these links lead to your accounts, then the messages are stored information on which of these addresses have been sent. This gives us the ability to easily cataloging our mail.We in different places use different addresses, then your account set up rules for dealing with messages sent to a specific one. Let's say on the record MyStore.com website using the address of the suffix wrzasq+mystore@gmail.com. Now create a label for own account MyStore, and then walk in the Settings → Filters, and there create a new filter - type in the address field from which we have given, which for me would be wrzasq+mystore@gmail.com, then set automated action settings such messages MyStore labels.



This is just an example application - the same filter mechanism shows that we can much more precisely describe the behavior for each address, for example, registering for services, which we do not want to receive e-mails, we can provide the address and wrzasq+spam@gmail.com automatically mean they messages as spam.



I wonder what a man learns about your account ...