plus-addressing

pinkyrocks@gmail.com

pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com

work

Settings->Filters

pinkyrocks+work@gmail.com

work

Find out who is spamming you

pinkyrocks+nytimes@gmail.com





pinkyrocks+freestuff@gmail.com

Automatically label your incoming mail

Archive your mail

pinkyrocks+mailinglist1@gmail.com

Update (9/7)

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Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is, and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make itand set up a filter to label it(to access your filters go toand create a filter for messages addressed to. Then add the label).More real world examples:: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.Example: You could usefor nytimes.comfor freestuff.comThen you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.: I've talked about that above.: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.Example: For the mailing list, you could giveas your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.: Several commentors have indicated that this is not a Gmail specific trick. kl says Fastmail has enabled this feature as well. caliban10 reports that a lot of sites reject addresses with a plus sign. You might use other services like Mailinator for disposable addresses instead. pbinder recommends using services like SpamGourmet , which redirects mail to your real address.

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