Dot and plus trick with Gmail
Say your Google GMail address is alexsmith@gmail.com, you can use any of the email addresses listed below which will still send email to alexsmith@gmail.com. bagayan@gmail.com … … bagayan@gmail.com ba.gayan@gmail.com b.a.g.a.y.a.n@gmail.com … … bagayan+askstudent@gmail.com ba.gayan+cmu@gmail.com ba.gaya.n+gamegroup@gmail.com bagayan+anythingyouwant@gmail.com If you notice from above, you can put any number of dots in your email address and it would still go to your primary GMail account. Also, if you add text after your GMail user id with a ‘+” such as alexsmith+cmu@gmail.com, it will still be forwarded to bagayan@gmail.com. So, how is this useful: 1. Use this to tag and filter your emails. I am subscribed to a mailing list from my school. So, for my email, I use bagayan+cmu@gmail.com. I then filter and tag my email coming to this email address. Similarly, you can use different va...