Hundreds of Email Addresses in One Account: An Incredible Gmail Feature You Didn't Know About

One Gmail, one address. This seems right. After all, you have one phone number and one home address. The same should be true for your email addresses. However, your Gmail account has an unlimited number of addresses that you can use at any time, fooling everyone from Netflix to spammers. Lifehacker.

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In fact, there are several methods here. You can turn your single Gmail address into an infinite number of addresses with a tactic called plus addressing. To use plus addressing, you simply type a plus (+) after the local part (the name before the @), and then type whatever you want.

For example, your Gmail address [email protected], you can enter [email protected] or [email protected]. The service you use this email with will think it's a completely new address, but any emails to that address will still be sent to your inbox. This works for any Gmail address, even if the domain is not gmail.com.

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On the one hand, this is a great way to find out where your spam emails are coming from. You can get into the habit of applying the appropriate plus address to any service you sign up for. For example, you can use your name before @[email protected] when registering on Facebook or your name before @[email protected] when creating a Hulu account. Then you would check the spam message in your inbox and see that it came from “your name before @[email protected]", you would know in this way that Facebook is sharing your address with third parties who are spamming you, unless you shared the address your name before @+facebook with another service.

On the other hand, it is an ideal temporary email factory for free trials. Forget about creating a new Gmail account every time you want to watch a show for free. Simply add your new plus address to your current account and start a new trial. Use your name before @[email protected] and your name before @[email protected] will work fine.

Of course, if the service requires a unique credit card for each new trial, this presents a new problem.

And you can add not only advantages. Dots will also work. You can write, for example, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] - any combination you can think of, separating your name with dots.

However, if for some reason the service you sign up for doesn't accept your plus address, there's another Gmail trick you can try. This time all you need to do is change the "gmail" part of your address to "googlemail" (eg. [email protected]And not [email protected]). Just like over-addressing, using googlemail instead of gmail makes the service think you're using a completely new address, but all incoming googlemail emails will end up in your regular gmail inbox.

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Additionally, addressing isn't the only way to protect your Gmail address from spam and scammers. You can turn to DuckDuckGo or Apple's "Hide My Email" services to create "recorder" accounts when signing up for new services you don't trust. Like secondary addressing, these account accounts will forward all incoming messages to your primary Gmail address, but the benefit here is that you never reveal your actual Gmail address in the process. Using e.g. [email protected] works great, but it still exposes your local part to the service you subscribe to. Recording accounts provide even greater privacy.

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