QuoteBecause Google Mail doesn't recognise dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Google Mail address won't change the actual destination address. Messages sent to yourusername@googlemail.com, your.username@googlemail.com and y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@googlemail.com are all delivered to your Inbox, and only yours.
What a good idea. My wife is always getting email for a 'same name, no dot' email address on BTOpenworld. Shame other providers didn't adopt this system.
Yeah, really neat idea. IIRC Jamoe did a post about this a while back and how he used it to sort emails? :)
thats cool. I'm sure people can suggest names which when punctuated differently have hilariously different meanings.
Google Mail also still has the capability of yourusername@gmail.com aswell as yourusername@googlemail.com
Don't forget you can use
yourname+@gmail.com
So sending an email to "yourname+deadmenwalking@gmail.com" would make it to the inbox of "yourname@gmail.com". You can use this for tracking purposes when registering for online services and you'll know if you get spam mail from some other place where the email address was harvested from.
Quote from: Rabbi Bob;247878Don't forget you can use
yourname+@gmail.com
So sending an email to "yourname+deadmenwalking@gmail.com" would make it to the inbox of "yourname@gmail.com". You can use this for tracking purposes when registering for online services and you'll know if you get spam mail from some other place where the email address was harvested from.
Excellent. Cheers :thumb:
Excellent, lots of good info. :)
Quote from: Rabbi Bob;247878Don't forget you can use
yourname+@gmail.com
So sending an email to "yourname+deadmenwalking@gmail.com" would make it to the inbox of "yourname@gmail.com". You can use this for tracking purposes when registering for online services and you'll know if you get spam mail from some other place where the email address was harvested from.
Thanks Rabbi, I didn't know that one :D
All good stuff thanks peeps!
Quote from: delanvital;247852Yeah, really neat idea. IIRC Jamoe did a post about this a while back and how he used it to sort emails? :)
not me :), I did a post about how some scammer changed all the filters in my gmail account so I wouldn't find out about them nicking money from my paypal account, via ebay. :ranting2:
Quote from: Rabbi Bob;247878Don't forget you can use
yourname+@gmail.com
So sending an email to "yourname+deadmenwalking@gmail.com" would make it to the inbox of "yourname@gmail.com". You can use this for tracking purposes when registering for online services and you'll know if you get spam mail from some other place where the email address was harvested from.
Never knew this, an excellent piece of info, many thanks! :yahoo:
TL.