Home > General > Multiple email addresses for one Gmail Account

Multiple email addresses for one Gmail Account

I’m a huge fan of Google’s online applications: GMail, Google Reader, etc. One little known feature of GMail which I find myself using over and over again is the ability to add extra metadata to my gmail email address to let me know where the email came from.

Let’s say that I have a gmail address: sean@gmail.com

Now if I am signing up for a newsletter at XYZ Corp. I can register with the email address sean+xyz@gmail.com You can put in any extra alphanumeric information after the plus sign and it still gets delivered to sean@gmail.com. Furthermore you can apply a filter in Gmail to process the email a certain way based on the email address that you signed you for (sean+xyz@gmail.com).

One handy use of this feature is to track where emails are coming from so if you started to get spammed for instance you will know which address was passed onto a third party.

If this post has helped you please consider making a donation.

Categories: General Tags:
  1. October 27th, 2011 at 10:57 | #1

    It seems as though nearly everyone has at least two email addresses these days, and it’s not uncommon to have upwards of four that are used on a regular basis for separate purposes.

    Thank you for this excellent write-up!!

  2. November 12th, 2011 at 18:45 | #2

    :-) Thanks

  3. December 17th, 2011 at 16:23 | #3

    Hi,

    Thanks for the write up, it will be interesting to see who is selling our email.

    We have signed up for Google apps as 1 user with multiple alias which is working fine.

    The problem we have is that we have multiple domains and would like to view all the accounts / emails in one gmail account, do you know if we could do this?

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks

  4. December 19th, 2011 at 09:42 | #4
  5. Abigail
    March 14th, 2012 at 18:44 | #5

    Hello, my question is somewhat related…. I have two gmail accounts, but for some reason, when someone sends me mail to address B it also comes to address A. But not the other way around.
    What is going on??

    p.s. I do not have them joined and I have not added address A to address Bs account info, and visa versa.

    Thank you so much for your help
    Abigail

  6. Cher
    May 8th, 2012 at 22:40 | #6

    How do I add multiple gmail addresses?

  7. Nell
    May 18th, 2012 at 02:47 | #7

    If everybody learnes this, then the spamers will just leave off the letters or numbers behind the + sign and the main account will be spamed on end.

  8. Berta Opperman
    July 19th, 2012 at 08:51 | #8

    Would like to delete the extra e-mail address I’ve added. Do not know how.

  9. August 29th, 2012 at 22:00 | #9

    This site definitely has all the information and facts I needed
    concerning this subject and didn’t know who to ask.

  10. January 22nd, 2013 at 09:39 | #10

    Niedowolni rozmy?lamy o preparacja niepolskich
    domów i szko?y w kryzysie. Jednak?e azali wci?? trwanie,
    by preparowa? osobist? jednostk?? Gdy? nagminnie niezbitego fabryki maj?
    zni?one personelu, powierzchni tudzie? sortymentów, naraz by? mo?e
    ?wiadczy? ró?nic? mi?dzy ?yciem i powinno si? zapiecz?towa? wej?cie.
    Grunt istnieje, aby przeznaczy? cokolwiek wieku, tak aby przygotowa? budynek, kadra natomiast siebie!

  11. March 14th, 2013 at 13:08 | #11

    Why visitors still use to read news papers when in this technological world the whole thing
    is presented on web?

  12. April 10th, 2013 at 04:03 | #12

    Thanks for the good writeup. It if truth be told was once a entertainment account it. Glance complicated to far added agreeable from you! By the way, how could we be in contact?

  13. May 5th, 2013 at 11:57 | #13

    Thanks for your personal marvelous posting! I
    genuinely enjoyed reading it, you may be a great author.
    I will make certain to bookmark your blog and will often come back in the future.
    I want to encourage that you continue your great posts, have a
    nice morning!

Comment pages
1 2 87
  1. October 18th, 2007 at 13:59 | #1
  2. March 28th, 2008 at 18:48 | #2
  3. October 23rd, 2008 at 08:37 | #3
  4. August 27th, 2009 at 08:39 | #4
  5. August 27th, 2009 at 18:47 | #5
  6. August 28th, 2009 at 00:46 | #6
  7. August 30th, 2009 at 14:22 | #7
  8. March 15th, 2010 at 05:01 | #8
  9. March 12th, 2012 at 19:35 | #9
  10. December 29th, 2012 at 17:06 | #10