Handy Gmail tips

[vulcanised]

There's several of them on the Daily Telegraph page/

I liked this one

"
If you want to have multiple versions of your email addess, you can just add in a full stop to your email address. Google will send the same emails to [email protected] to [email protected].
If Sam wanted even more aliases, he could be [email protected] or any other variation.
Handy tip if you want to use multiple email alises to sign up to different web services or newsletters."

[mixture]

You can also use a plus sign, in the format [email protected]

[Capetonian]

I don't like that at all. It means that if Sam Jones sets up an email as [email protected] and then Samantha Jones, a different person, sets up as [email protected], they will both receive each others' email. Or am I missing something?

Not a great concern to me anyway as I've never trusted gmail and don't use my account for anything that matters.

[localflighteast]

gmail wouldn't allow those two examples to exist as separate accounts
I know because I have the same name as a minor film star.
she has my firstname.lastname@gmail as her address

I have to have firstname.middleinitial.lastname@gmail

doesn't stop me getting her email on occasion. Once I got her plane tickets emailed to me

[mixture]

Capetonian,

I thought that too.

But its one of those Googlisms.... you know where they do stuff differently.

A quick Google would have yielded you this page.... http://gmailblog.********.co.nz/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html


(Stupid PPRune Link changing..... replace the stars with b.l.o.g.s.p.o.t .... without the dots)

[cattletruck]

So in theory I should be able to send e-mail like this:

[email protected]

and they wouldn't be none the wiser :E.