Unlimited Email Addresses – Gmail

Unlimited Email Addresses!

First of all, Quick question for you!
How many Gmail addresses you have?

Agreed! Most of the Gmail users will answer one! Few may answer 2-3 or a little more. But in reality, every Gmail users have an unlimited number of Gmail addresses, even if you registered only one Gmail account!

You are correct – Unlimited Email Addresses!

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Gmail Alias – Unlimited Email Addresses – Gmail

Traditionally, these additional email addresses are called Gmail Alias.
Here is the list of Gmail addresses you can use:

#1. dot [.] alias
#2. plus [+] alias
#3. googlemail.com alias

#1. dot [.] alias

Gmail doesn’t consider dot[.] as a character. So, all the following addresses are the same.

which means, you can just add or remove any number of dots in your Gmail address; all these addresses are just the same! All your dot-variant addresses will be delivered to your inbox.

#2. plus [+] alias

Adding a plus (“+”) symbol with any word will also work in the same way.
Consider the following examples.

Similarly, all these addresses are just the same!

#3. googlemail.com alias

Finally:- By default, every [email protected] has an alias [email protected]. So if you send an email to [email protected], they will see it in [email protected].

The official Google blog has an article about these methods.
You are correct! You can use all the aliases in any combination. ([email protected])

Conclusion

Now, you may be wondering what to do with these virtual infinite email addresses (or aliases). Use your original email address with your friends and other real people only. And use the aliases addresses with websites, newsletters, and other online purposes.

[email protected] for all social networking websites
[email protected] for all shopping websites
[email protected] for all unknown websites
(Many websites ask for email addresses; If you think of any website that may spam your inbox in the feature, use these instead of your real email address.)

Now you can create labels like social, shopping, spam, etc, and then create an individual filter for each alias! It may sound like a lot of work but once it’s done, it saves your time forever!

Are you already using this? Do not forget to share how are you using these filters!