Use a "+" to make infinite Gmail accounts

[koolkat]

Google’s Gmail allows people to get a free email account - but it seems that a lot of people aren’t aware that this gives you access to almost unlimited unique email addresses that will all point to the same inbox, just by making a couple of simple tweaks to it.

One of the easiest is to just add a "+" after your name. Gmail ignores any word you add after a plus sign in your address (before @gmail.com ) so you can basically have an unlimited number of email addresses, all using the same Gmail inbox. For example, if your email address is [email protected], emails sent to [email protected] will still arrive in your inbox.

Plus, you can set filters within Gmail for it... so they all go to the correct folder, nice and neat.

It'll come in handy if:

• You want to sign up for a site or service a second time
• You’re developing a web application and need to test email sending a bunch
• You want to sign up to a website or service, but with a unique email address - this way if you get unsolicited emails from someone you’ll know exactly who sold your data