There are at least two ways you can modify your Gmail address and still get your mail. You can set up filters to automatically direct received messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the Inbox, or forward to another email account.
1) Plus-addressing
Gmail supports plus-addressing of emails. Messages can be sent to addresses in the form: gmail.user+extratext@gmail.com where extratext can be any string. Plus-addressing allows users to sign up for different services with different aliases and then easily filter all e-mails from those services. It does not appear, however, that the +string feature works when sending email from a gmail account to itself. Additionally (in some cases) the string appended to the e-mail address may not be longer than six characters.
For example, if your name was joesmith@gmail.com, you could send mail to joesmith+friends@gmail.com or joesmith+facebook@gmail.com.
The plus ("+") sign is not simply a Gmail feature, but one of the valid characters in email addresses as specified by RFC-5233 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233). Although it's true that many email validation tools don't take this into account.
Here is the step-by-step instruction on how to filter incoming emails using Gmail plus-addressing: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Plus-Addressing-in-Gmail
2) Dot within username
Gmail doesn't recognize dots (".") as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
joesmith@gmail.com = joe.smith@gmail.com
joesmith@gmail.com = j.o.e.smith@gmail.com
joesmith@gmail.com = Joe.Smith@gmail.com
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You'll still go to your account.
1) Plus-addressing
Gmail supports plus-addressing of emails. Messages can be sent to addresses in the form: gmail.user+extratext@gmail.com where extratext can be any string. Plus-addressing allows users to sign up for different services with different aliases and then easily filter all e-mails from those services. It does not appear, however, that the +string feature works when sending email from a gmail account to itself. Additionally (in some cases) the string appended to the e-mail address may not be longer than six characters.
For example, if your name was joesmith@gmail.com, you could send mail to joesmith+friends@gmail.com or joesmith+facebook@gmail.com.
The plus ("+") sign is not simply a Gmail feature, but one of the valid characters in email addresses as specified by RFC-5233 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5233). Although it's true that many email validation tools don't take this into account.
Here is the step-by-step instruction on how to filter incoming emails using Gmail plus-addressing: http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Plus-Addressing-in-Gmail
2) Dot within username
Gmail doesn't recognize dots (".") as characters within usernames, you can add or remove the dots from a Gmail address without changing the actual destination address; they'll all go to your inbox, and only yours. In short:
joesmith@gmail.com = joe.smith@gmail.com
joesmith@gmail.com = j.o.e.smith@gmail.com
joesmith@gmail.com = Joe.Smith@gmail.com
All these addresses belong to the same person. You can see this if you try to sign in with your username, but adding or removing a dot from it. You'll still go to your account.
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