Dunno how well known this feature is: if you have abc![[put at-character here]](image/at.gif) gmail.com, both a.bcgmail.com or a.b.cgmail will be sent to abcgmail.com.
Found on http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/
(The article states both the abc+defgmail.com feature and this one.) |
A doubt:
Suppose that I have an email address blogoscopedgmail.com.
Is it possible for some one to regsiter blogoscoped.xgmail.com ? I tried the signup form name availability and it shows as available!!
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you can registrer that, but you also get: b.l.o.g.o.s.c.o.p.e.d.xgmail.com b.logogscopedxgmail.xom.com blogoscopedxgmail.com etc... |
Thanks James, then how I can expect that the above hack (David Mulder) would work correctly?
Confused.
Being the owner of blogoscopedgmail.com, I might give blogoscoped.somethinggmail.com to avoid , say SPAM, and who will get the mail? What happens if some else has already registered blogoscoped.somethinggmail.com? Who will get the mail?
Hope my question is clear. |
mukthar: The span avoidance technique uses a '+' sign not a '.' symbol. So you'd use blogoscoped+somethinggmail.com to avoid spam. |
Thanks Reto Meier.
May be I got it wrong then.
I thought I could append any string after my actual id after appending a '.'
Now I undersand that is not the case.
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A side note, Live Hotmail treats blogoscopedlive.com and b.logoscopedlive.com as different addresses ... which is very confusing. |
Keith
Thats a normal way all the mail servers behave
any change in spelling will point to another mailbox
Here Google is doing things differently by ignoring dots |
