Comments on: Using Gmail Aliases for Better Organization

By: How to Create Your Own Email Aliases On The Fly

How to Create Your Own Email Aliases On The Fly — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 19:02:07 +0000

[...] trick that I use. It takes a little setting up, but once operational, it’s even easier than adding + signs to email addresses to create [...]

By: JohnD

JohnD — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:25:33 +0000

Maybe you could just not comment, too

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:06:45 +0000

After doing this process…When I “Compose Mail” to respond to a person why is the Gmail Aliases Address not in the drop down box of possible emails…just my personal email address appears, not the Gmail Aliases i created…I want to be able to respond using my new Gmail Aliases…

thanks

By: Richard Peterson

Richard Peterson — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:46:12 +0000

The problem (until now) with using plus addressing to track spammers is this:

How do you set up a filter to catch ALL plus addressed email? Something like “to:johndoe+*@gmail.com” won’t work. Neither will “to:johndoe+”. A quick Google search will show you that Gmail simply doesn’t support it. So in order to find and filter plus-addressed emails, you have to search for each individual address. “to:johndoe+a | to:johndoe+b | to:johndoe+c ….” Not exactly useful for tracking spammers.

BUT…

Try this. Every time you use a plus address, add a period to your address, like so: “john.doe+nytimes@gmail.com” or “john.doe+shadysite@gmail.com”. If you do this consistently, you can run a search like this: “to:john.doe@gmail.com” … and it will bring up all your plus-addressed email! Now try “to:john.doe@gmail.com in:spam” and you can really start tracking down those spammers. Remember – this won’t find your previous plus-addressed email – the ones without the period. If you already use a period in your address, put it in a different place for plus-addressed email. Like “johndo.e+spammer@gmail.com” Gmail doesn’t care.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:06:43 +0000

I also hate web sites that won’t allow the plus sign in an email address. Most sites will use some javascript to check your email address so that it will pass. So to get around that, simply disable your javascript. Of course you may have to turn it back on if the form uses javascript to submit. I was able to turn off javascript, enter in my email address with a plus sign, then turn back on javascript to submit the form.

By: Aldrin Leal

Aldrin Leal — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 01:36:33 +0000

Another useful gmail tip is that all address will be normalized removing dots and being redirected. Err… time to explain:

Suppose you have “anuser@gmail.com”. You can mail to “an.user@gmail.com”, “a.nuser@gmail.com”, and it will get delivered into the same address.

Just another tip to deal with people likely to spam you.

By: Roger

Roger — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:33:22 +0000

2 things.

Most places that want to sell your email/spam you will have filters that cut off the plus sign and then spam your main account.

Therefore, instead of using the @gmail.com address, use the alternate @googlemail.com one that sends to the same place. That way you can trash any that come into @googlemail.com without a plus filter included as being spam.

… that is until they write a spam generator that converts googlemail.com to gmail.com.

Oh well, back to bed.

I usually use a proxy mailing address like mailinator.com for this kind of stuff and have an RSS feed that will let me see there is something there.

By: Are You Using Gmail Aliases to Label Your Mail? | Publisher Solutions

Are You Using Gmail Aliases to Label Your Mail? | Publisher Solutions — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:15:13 +0000

[...] You’d think that my full-time transition to Gmail in 2007 would have me using every trick in the book to manage my mail. Nope. Getting caught up in the grind with gadgets coming and going, I haven’t found the time to exploit all of Gmail’s little tips and tricks. That changes today for two reasons: I’m going to make the time and I have a good launching pad with this timely post from Web Worker Daily. [...]

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By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:50:41 +0000

Tinkering with labels a little more (I have not modified my labels in over a year) I noticed I have some unread e-mails with labels, and wanted to see just the unread with that label.
There is a search option “is:” that can do this, say my label is “work” I can search for:
label:work is:unread
and it will find all the e-mails labelled work which are unread.

I was so happy to find this, I thought I’d share.