Saturday, September 6, 2008

Customizing Gmail Addresses

If you want to create unlimited Gmail addresses for , say filtering out the incoming mail from work or your wife or something, just add a plus (+) to your user name and create a filter for that specific user.

For Example

To receive e-mail from your wife and have it filtered do this.

- Give your wife this e-mail address to send you stuff to:
yourusername+wife@gmail.com
- Then, go to your settings section and add a filter called Wife. Have any e-mail with a destination address matching yourusername+wife@gmail.com go into this filter and that's it.

From there on, any e-mail destined to that address is going to be sorted to that filter.

You can also add dots to the address. Gmail ignores all extra characters on the user name part of the e-mail address.

Source: Gmail Help Files

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