Some extra GMail Account Uses

Having a GMail Account has many uses. Besides having a safe Inbox, you actually get more than one Email address just by making on GMail Account.

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Here are some tricks you should try and should know :

-An email sent to tech.blog@gmail.com or tech.blog+best@gmail.com will all be redirected to one common email address and that is paris.hilton@gmail.com.

Gmail does not recognize characters after the PLUS symbol but the gmail search filter can distinguish between the different address and you can therefore redirect these email to separate gmail folders or apply different labels for your convenience.

- Gmail cannot recognize dots or periods in email addresses or the user names – this means an address like tech.blog@gmail.com is the same as t.ec.h.blog@gmail.com or tech…blog@gmail.com.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses – one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

Gmail accounts cannot be used with hyphens (-) and underscores (_) can’t be used in a Gmail address. Also, gmail user names are case insensitive, so it doesn’t matter if you enter upper case or lower case letters.

This is just some random things you can have with your GMail accounts. Would update some mroe hacks and tips & tweaks.

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7 comments

  1. Tejaswini
    February 10, 2009 at 5:43 PM

    Do we need to change some settings of gmail to receive emails from such addresses? and does it mean that if someone sends me message with misplaced . or _ etc., though i will get the mail…?

  2. v1dz
    February 11, 2009 at 12:57 AM

    No you don't have to change any of the settings. It just a undiscovered gmail feature. Gmail cannot recognize dots or periods in email addresses or the user names, so if they are added, they are ignored by the Gmail Mail Sending server system.

  3. Tejaswini
    February 11, 2009 at 6:33 AM

    okay…I just tried it, I sent mail to myself putting some special characters in the gmail ID and it worked. I got the mail. :) Thanks a lot!

  4. burgen
    March 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM

    haha ^^ nice, is there a section to follow the RSS feed

  5. admin
    March 3, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    Check the header, you can subscribe to my feeds.
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  6. Combat Arms
    April 6, 2009 at 11:38 PM

    Great ideas, is there a place to elaborate on this all?

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