Comments on: Are You Using Gmail Aliases to Label Your Mail?

By: Mitchell Allen

Mitchell Allen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:27:46 +0000

I just came here from a Google search, after having read the WWD article. Since I would want to use the alias for spammy newsletters, I’ll probably go with the Google Applications extra emails. Thanks, Scott!

However, I was really pleased to see two other helpful comments:

AndyW mentions normalized addresses (extra dots)
Kevin linked to saved searches! I miss that feature from Thunderbird.

Thanks to everyone!

Cheers,

Mitch

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:29:49 +0000

Kevin

You may already know about this, but my suggestion would be to check out Quick Links as a way to save Searches. It could be a useful alternative to using Filters.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=145401

e.g. you could save a search of “Phone pics in the last 7 days”.

I find them quite useful and a little more flexible than Filters and Labels.

You’ll find Quick Links as a feature in the Labs settings part of Gmail (next to the “Settings” link). There are tonnes of other useful labls features, e.g. “Mark as read”, “send and archive”.

Anthony

By: me

me — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:09:50 +0000

Here is a tip – don’t use Gmail or any other Google services

By: AndyW

AndyW — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 04:14:34 +0000

Kevin, there is another idea with your gmail address…

You can put periods anywhere in your name for example

kctofel@gmail can be kc.tofel@gmail.com or k.c.tofel@gmail.com or even k.c.t.o.f.e.l@gmail.com

All the above addresses will come to your inbox, but google filters can differentiate and act upon them.

By: Jonathan Cohen

Jonathan Cohen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:55:39 +0000

Unfortunately, plenty of Web services don’t recognize email addresses containing plus signs as valid.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:55:36 +0000

i don’t use aliases that way… just my extra gmail accts ;) Google apps gives me enough accts to use one for spam, a few for work… etc.

By: gmazin

gmazin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:40:50 +0000

Spam. Instead of using another email address i just add +(whatever) if I need to use my address for a one time thing. Then after I’m done i set a filter to skip inbox/delete all mail incoming to that address…