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Turn your email address into multiple

by lacraiger
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Here's a tip that I learned recently and i'm sure you guys will find it useful.

Many of use create multiple emails for whatever purpose... (posting on classifieds, spam, etc.)

We want them easy to remember so we make them similar different but add numbers at the end like:

warrior1@gmail
warrior2@gmail
warrior3@gmail
etc

This is time consuming and most of these emails forward to one "main" account anyway. It's also impossible to keep track of how many unnecessary emails that we have.

Now you don't have to do that anymore...

Whenever you need a new email simply put a "+1" at the end of the same email.

For example:

warrior+1@gmail
warrior+2@gmail
warrior+3@gmail
etc

Basically if you sent an email to warrior+99@gmail.com, it will end up at warrior@gmail.com

Websites consider these as different emails but they will all be forwarded to the original warrior@gmail email. I have not used it past +99 so i'm not sure where the capped number is.


Go ahead and send at test email to yourself!
#address #email #multiple #turn
  • Profile picture of the author goliathseo
    Nice share! Now does this work for only free email addresses or would this work for an email from your domain name i.e. you+1@yourdomain.com
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    • Profile picture of the author John Cabral
      Originally Posted by goliathseo View Post

      Nice share! Now does this work for only free email addresses or would this work for an email from your domain name i.e. you+1@yourdomain.com
      Did not work with my own domain....
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  • Profile picture of the author Damien Roche
    I'm pretty sure you can use any string after the +...

    Yep! sure can. You can then go into settings >> filters and send the emails sent to email+id@gmail.com to a label/folder.

    Gotta love gmail!
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    • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
      Originally Posted by Damien Roche View Post

      I'm pretty sure you can use any string after the +...

      Yep! sure can. You can then go into settings >> filters and send the emails sent to email+id@gmail.com to a label/folder.

      Gotta love gmail!
      Nice discovery!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Lewis
    Just tried it to my gmail. Works Great! Thanks for the tip. I tried it on yahoo and it does not work on there. Guess its only a gmail thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author jimmorris
    Originally Posted by markshields View Post

    I am also interested to know if this would work with any domain or just gmail.com
    I just tried it on my own domain that has Gmail hosted at Google.

    Works perfect with the +_____ (whatever)
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  • Profile picture of the author ericdpangilinan
    Pretty neat trick lacraiger!

    Will give this a try.

    Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnPark
    That's a great tip. Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. God bless you
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  • Profile picture of the author Steve Powers
    nice idea,I only have one working email.Maybe I'll have a try from now on.Thanks for your sharing.
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  • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
    thanks guys
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    • Profile picture of the author achivement84
      Very nice post,

      Thanks alot , it will save much time for me , i am going to use it immediately , i see some guys already tried it out.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ricky Parker
    This is a nice way if you are creating a bunch of accounts places and wanna keep track of stuff. (and not have to create a bunch of new email accounts)

    Good share for those that did not know about this little tweak with gmail.
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  • Profile picture of the author francof
    Cool, nice trick! Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author francof
    for myself as a web developer this is going to be really useful when testing an application that allows only unique email addresses in teh system, better than inputting a bogus email address like adfsfa2343214rwefw@gmail.com :p
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    • Profile picture of the author lacraiger
      Originally Posted by francof View Post

      for myself as a web developer this is going to be really useful when testing an application that allows only unique email addresses in teh system, better than inputting a bogus email address like adfsfa2343214rwefw@gmail.com :p
      Yup no need for 100 emails anymore LOL. also I hated logging on and off different accounts.
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      • Profile picture of the author andrew_writes
        Sounds great!

        I use gmail but I mostly use my domain name email addresses.

        Has anyone found out how to do this with a domain name?
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        • Profile picture of the author pbcustom98
          Originally Posted by andrew_writes View Post

          Sounds great!

          I use gmail but I mostly use my domain name email addresses.

          Has anyone found out how to do this with a domain name?
          awesome tip indeed.

          try the same format with the domain emails.

          if it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. no harm, no foul.
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        • Profile picture of the author mgkimsal
          Originally Posted by andrew_writes View Post

          Sounds great!

          I use gmail but I mostly use my domain name email addresses.

          Has anyone found out how to do this with a domain name?
          It's dependant on the mail server running on your system. Qmail can be configured to support a variation of this - foo-bar@domain.com I think. (- instead of +) but it's been a while since I played with it. Best chat with your domain hosting sysadmin/support person. If it's not 'on', it might be a piece of functionality they can enable.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris Cabo
    excellent tip. Thx
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  • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
    Originally Posted by lacraiger View Post

    Here's a tip that I learned recently and i'm sure you guys will find it useful.
    Actually a Google employee discovered it more than one year ago. It seems that not even Google knew about it Source: Official Gmail Blog: 2 hidden ways to get more from your Gmail address
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  • Profile picture of the author Slin
    Wow! That's cool, I hope that it doesn't get us in trouble in the future

    But definitely awesome.
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    • Profile picture of the author mhendenterprises
      Thanks for the tip. It doesn't work with either my Comcast or NetZero Accts, but I'll keep it in mind when using Gmail.
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  • Profile picture of the author marcus passey
    Nice tip just used it thanks, works just as you said.

    cheers

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