Steve Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 This means that if your gmail address is joeshmoe@gmail.com, you can send an email to joeshmoe+ANYTHINGYOUWANTCANGOHERE@gmail.com. This is a great little known feature, because you can use it to identify which websites are selling your email info to spammers. For example, lets say you want to fill out a sweepstakes form on somesite.com and it asks for your email address. Instead of telling them your address is joeshmoe@gmail.com, tell them it is joeshmoe+somesite@gmail.com. That way you know that any email that is sent to that address (joeshmoe+somesite@gmail.com) ORIGINATED in some way from somesite.com - either the email is from them, or they sold you out and gave it to spammers and now you know who to blame. And you can now set up a filter to delete all email sent to joeshmoe+somesite@gmail.com if it's getting spamridden, making gmail accounts have automatic disposable addresses. This is very similar to yahoo mail's "Address Guard" feature, except that you don't have to login to gmail to create the disposable address every time you want a new one. Just add a plus sign to your username and put whatever you want after the plus sign and you've got your new address. Pretty nifty.Cool feature! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Deeswift Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 Yeah, that is pretty smart! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 yeah thats pretty handy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 I've never had a problem with spam, but nonetheless this sounds nifty and i'll remember it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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