I Hate Coding…

are you using gmail as your email provider ? do you know this hidden tricks ?

• Append a plus (“+”) sign and any combination of words or numbers after your email address. For example, if your name was hikingfan@gmail.com, you could send mail to hikingfan+friends@gmail.com or hikingfan+mailinglists@gmail.com.
• Insert one or several dots (“.”) anywhere in your email address. Gmail doesn’t recognize periods as characters in addresses — we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com.

i really love the first trick, it allow me to identify all incoming emails from groups / certain email simply by define a meaningful name after the + sign when i register and then create rule based on the name after + sign. as example : i want to join a .net groups, so this what would i do :

• I register my email, i can choose myemail+net@gmail.com. the email itself will still be received in your myemail@gmail.com, no need to create a new name. don’t worry
• create a folder to store the email, example : .net
• create a filter that will move every email that is sent to  myemail+net@gmail.com to a predefined folder (.net).

voila…now i can organize my email better. thanks google…

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