Yes, This Is You!
Gmail is known for many of its top features including labels, filters and search. But did you know that you have an unlimited number of aliases in addition to your primary address? Consider the following:
If your email address is username@gmail.com, then user.name@gmail.com, us.er.n.ame@gmail.com, u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com, etc. are all yours as well. The number of dots can be unlimited, the system just strips out the dots so the whole string of text (with any number of dots) belongs to you. See the image below.
That’s not all, all those usernames are equally valid on the domain googlemail.com i.e. gmail.com and googlemail.com can be used interchangeably. Why? Read here. The image below shows a test mail.
It’s not yet over! Any thing can be appended to your primary username after a plus sign as well. For example, username+school@gmail.com, username+work@gmail.com, etc. and filters can be made to apply different labels to these and route them to different folders.
With all this and more, how can we not love Google?!!
Read the links below for more info:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/
http://somegirlwitha.com/2008/04/17/the-dot-plus-and-googlemail-gmail-hacks/
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=10313#
thats something i would had never learnt….good job google and well done anas on sharing it…..it seems that there is every chance that hotmail will perish in future….i think its sustainig only because of MSN messenger…lets see how long can it sustain
Yeah It works!!!! but one thing can we open our accounts with these aliases???