TIP: using Gmail to have mutliple unique e-mail addresses
by daven on Jan.02, 2008, under Quick Tips
Have you ever wanted to have a specific e-mail address for a site or maybe a throw away address so you can see if your credit car company is the one selling your e-mail address to spammers. Now you could use your own domain name and setup multiple e-mail addresses for each account and forward them on to a central mailbox for you to peruse. However, if you have a GMail account or if you don’t mind setting one up ( it is free after all ) you can use the usename+ trick.
To use this trick simply type your e-mail address and normal but in between your username and the @ enter in + followed by something descriptive. So for example if my gmail email address was notarealemailadddress@gmail.com and I wanted a unique e-mail address for cnn.com to you I could simply give them the e-mail address notarealemailaddress+cnn@gmail.com, GMail will then happily ignore the + and everything after it and deliver the e-mail to your inbox.
Have and if you find that someone was selling your address to spammers via this method make sure to let the world know what evil bastards they are.
