Comments on: 1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don’t Know about. Seriously.

By: The Gadgets of Jessica Zafra

The Gadgets of Jessica Zafra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:28:51 +0000

[...] Other techie traits observed were Zafra’s knowledge of blogging software (she narrated moving to Wordpress from Blogspot after someone offered to host her blog), and an eagerness to connect to the nearest WiFi hotspot. But nothing proved her geekiness more than her knowledge that the dot’s location on a Gmail address doesn’t really matter. [...]

By: jessiev

jessiev — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:27:35 +0000

THANK you! i appreciate this. and wonder why it took me a few yrs to find it? yikes! thanks again.

By: Marcelle McGhee

Marcelle McGhee — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:40:30 +0000

Thanks for the gmail tips. I plan to set this up immediately.

By: dm

dm — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:03:02 +0000

my namesake has a former employee who sent a note about how happy he was that my namesake was fired and that he felt he was the most pathetic human being ever to walk the earth, has copies of deeds and mortgages sent to his gmail account (he apparently flipped houses in the housing boom), searches for crap jobs in about every state these days, and sends some of his bills to the account. i let him know once but don’t think he seems to understand how public his emails are!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:54:49 +0000

Filtering based on dots in the address via the web interface does indeed work. I have done it.

By: 6 Smart Gmail Tricks To Help You Get The Most Out Of It | Money Daily Blog

6 Smart Gmail Tricks To Help You Get The Most Out Of It | Money Daily Blog — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:01:00 +0000

[...] Make use of multiple Gmail addresses you get with one accountThis is a gem. And if you didn’t know about this, here’s the surprise – with Gmail you actually get an unlimited number of different email addresses. Yes, unlimited! How? Well abc@gmail.com is same as a.bc@gmail.com and abc+def@gmail.com. More on this here. [...]

By: wendymonster.com » 6 Smart Gmail Tricks To Help You Get The Most Out Of It

wendymonster.com » 6 Smart Gmail Tricks To Help You Get The Most Out Of It — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:51:30 +0000

[...] Make use of multiple Gmail addresses you get with one account This is a gem. And if you didn’t know about this, here’s the surprise – with Gmail you actually get an unlimited number of different email addresses. Yes, unlimited! How? Well abc@gmail.com is same as a.bc@gmail.com and abc+def@gmail.com. More on this here. [...]

By: Heather Kephart

Heather Kephart — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:33:37 +0000

Freaking awesome! Thanks for passing this along.

By: robb

robb — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:40:29 +0000

i know i’ve read this stuff somewhere before.
thx for bringing this up.
nice info.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:16:12 +0000

same with mark before me, that its not working but thanks for the information

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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 01:22:37 +0000

I followed the said statement on the blog but it doesn’t work. Why it is so…

By: Take A Stand Against Spam And Report Email Scams In The U.S. – DodaPedia

Take A Stand Against Spam And Report Email Scams In The U.S. – DodaPedia — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:51:28 +0000

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By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:15:32 +0000

I don’t really see how this is orignal. I mean it is and everything its just kinda weird. And who cares.

By: Mr.Obvious

Mr.Obvious — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:51:40 +0000

To all the idiots who say “omg i already know this’, or “dude this sh*t is hella old!” this article was posted back in Sept of 2007. So don’t pat yourselves on the back and think you’re all L337 ninja mofos..

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:14:26 +0000

Just stumbled across this Gmail feature… thanks for posting it!

By: Kevin @ This is Broken Blog

Kevin @ This is Broken Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:48:41 +0000

Already knew this, seriously.

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Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:02:02 +0000

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By: Yesh

Yesh — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:51:11 +0000

I have known this for a good long time. Another great feature is that you can add +anything to the end of your gmail. For example:

somebody+spam@gmail.com

This isn’t allowed by all website’s forms however, some flag a + as an invalid character.

By: a

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:01:29 +0000

“Gmail tip you don’t know about”

wrong. This is old.

By: Avidan The Sane

Avidan The Sane — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:51:42 +0000

Good one!

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:39:03 +0000

Nice Tips

Thanks

By: spellathon

spellathon — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 18:51:12 +0000

excellent feature !!

By: What all Gmail users should know - Help2Go

What all Gmail users should know - Help2Go — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:27:39 +0000

[...] all Gmail users should know I stumbled on this excellent tip for anyone with a Gmail account. The spam tracing suggestion is very useful. __________________ [...]

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AlbertoAngeli.it » Blog Archive » Gmail: trucco per prevenire lo spam — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:09:08 +0000

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By: Gerry

Gerry — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:10:03 +0000

Wow. I see it as a MAJOR ‘aw shit’ potential. Once Spammers see/understand this then they will send you ‘n!’ emails instead of one. Bet gMail closes down this vulnerability.

By: joequincy

joequincy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:44:19 +0000

as the proud owner of the ahem.fake@gmail.com address, I can assure you that I receive emails sent to ahemfake@gmail.com just fine and dandy.

Also, if you actually considered sending an email to ahem.fake@gmail.com after reading that, please reach over and turn off your modem. I don’t want you on my internet >.<

By: joequincy

joequincy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:37:05 +0000

You’d be hard-pressed to find a password-recovery system that does not send the recovery information to the original email address.

This is a non-issue, especially when set next to the problems associated with the current frequency of having several email addresses that are literally separate (ex: ISP-domain.com, Yahoo.com, Hotmail/msn/live.com, Gmail.com, etc.)
At least with Gmail, the user merely needs to run a filter to find emails sent to a form of the address that had a “.” out of place or a “+” tacked on.

By: joequincy

joequincy — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:23:00 +0000

@ JackBook
While the sentiment about fake email addresses is valid, it’s a non-sequitur to assume that it’s the source of bad validation. Using a “+” in email addresses is not uncommon, nor unique to gmail. Gmail has merely implemented it as a form of sub-address, which is far from fake addresses (10 Minute Mail anyone?).

Any developer whose validation eliminates use of “+” in email addresses is either ignorant to the fact that it’s a valid character, or paranoid about visitors who ignore the bulk emails (usually worthless “notices” and/or unsolicited newsletters) they send out.