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patteo:
Came across this interesting idea to track down spam sources and dump it.

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"Use Gmail to Generate Unlimited E-mail Addresses:

Gmail has an interesting quirk where you can add a plus sign (+) after your Gmail address, and it'll still get to your inbox. It's called plus-addressing, and it essentially gives you an unlimited number of e-mail addresses to play with. Here's how it works: say your address is [email protected], and you want to automatically label all work e-mails. Add a plus sign and a phrase to make it [email protected] and set up a filter to label it work (to access your filters go to Settings->Filters and create a filter for messages addressed to [email protected]. Then add the label work).

More real world examples:

Find out who is spamming you: Be sure to use plus-addressing for every form you fill out online and give each site a different plus address.

Example: You could use
[email protected] for nytimes.com
[email protected] for freestuff.com
Then you can tell which site has given your e-mail address to spammers, and automatically send them to the trash.

Automatically label your incoming mail: I've talked about that above.

Archive your mail: If you receive periodic updates about your bank account balance or are subscribed to a lot of mailing lists that you don't check often, then you can send that sort of mail to the archives and bypass your Inbox.

Example: For the mailing list, you could give [email protected] as your address, and assign a filter that will archive mail to that address automatically. Then you can just check in once in a while on the archive if you want to catch up.

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Eóin:
Ah, this is something similar to what I do for my mail accounts protected by TMDA but I never knew you could do it with Gmail too :Thmbsup: .

AdIyhc:
So is this like the Yahoo feature? Sorry I'm a bit slow in understanding.

nudone:
nice gmail feature (does yahoo do the same thing then?).

i remember this kind of dummy email address method was discussed before on the forum but i've still not got around to implementing it.

AdIyhc:
Yahoo has the similar feature.

Just tested this. This is so cool for gmail! Now it's time to delete unneccesary email addresses. :D

Thanks for the info!  :Thmbsup:

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