I’m a huge fan of most Google applications and am consistently turning my web development clients on to the benefits of using GMail for managing e-mail, typically via their own domain and Google Apps. A while back I stumbled upon this post on the official GMail blog explaining how use “multiple” addresses while only needing one e-mail address.
Let’s assume your e-mail address is : scottellis@yourdomain.com
You can insert a period “.” anywhere in the name and Google will ignore it so you could give someone the address “scott.ellis@yourdomain.com” and email would still just come to scottellis@yourdomain.com. Alternatively, if you were weird you could do something like s.co.tt.ell.is@yourdomain.com and the effect would be the same.
More interesting and useful is adding a plus “+” after your email address. You can append anything to your e-mail address and still receive it at the regular e-mail address making it easier to flag, label or otherwise filter certain e-mails. For example, you could use “scottellis+airlines@yourdomain.com” and use that address for any e-mail you get from various airlines. It would still come to scottellis@yourdomain.com but you could then filter on that address. I would probably do the specif airlines like scottellis+aa@yourdomain.com but you get the idea.
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