Comments on: Multiple email addresses for one Gmail Account

By: Help and Information for New Bloggers | Electronics and ICT at Manangatang P12 College

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:37:23 +0000

[...] And from Sean Deasy - Multiple email addresses for one Gmail Account 12May07 http://www.seandeasy.com/multiple-email-addresses-for-one-gmail-account/ [...]

By: Langwitches » Blog Archive » Comiqs- Create and Share Comic Style Stories

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:48:15 +0000

[...] In order to save and publish a comic, which allows you to get a URL or an embedd code, you will need to sign up with an e-mail address. For our younger elementary school students that could be accomplished with the famous gmail trick described before by Kim Cofino Basically, Gmail allows you to create subsidiary accounts linked to an individual Gmail account. Check out this great screencast demonstrating how to create linked Gmail accounts that Alec Courosa made with Jing earlier today (I need to start getting the kids to make screencasts with Jing next - what a great way to create tutorials!). Basically, this means that one teacher can have 20 permanent e-mail accounts that are all delivered into one teacher e-mail account. Therefore, if the teacher account is teacher@gmail.com, all you have to do is add a ï¿½+studentnameï¿½ before the @ symbol to make a linked account. Therefore mail sent to teacher+studentname@gmail.com will go straight to teacher@gmail.com. [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:39:43 +0000

Thanks man that was great.

By: always learning » Sign Me Up! The Elementary Email Solution: Linked Gmail Accounts

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:59:24 +0000

[...] Basically, Gmail allows you to create subsidiary accounts linked to an individual Gmail account. Check out this great screencast demonstrating how to create linked Gmail accounts that Alec Courosa made with Jing earlier today (I need to start getting the kids to make screencasts with Jing next - what a great way to create tutorials!). [...]

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:34:47 +0000

Thanks for the comment Des. I too have used the catch all on my own domains. I think there is a subtle difference here with the catchall and the gmail method I outlined above. Generally the catchall on a domain will accept any local part of an email address i.e. abc123xyz@mydomain.com which means it is much more open to spamming because all someone has to know is your domain name (which they can find by crawling the web) whereas with the gmail system they would have to know your original gmail address first (which I keep a closely guarded secret )

Interesting about Wordpress (my blog system) not allowing the plus sign, according to RFC 2822 (outlines the rules for email address formats), the local-part of the address may use any of these ASCII characters:

* Uppercase and lowercase letters (case sensitive)
* The digits 0 through 9
* The characters ! # $ % & ‘ * - / = ? ^ _ ` { | } ~
* The character . provided that it is not the first or last character in the local-part.

By: Des

Des — Sat, 12 May 2007 22:18:10 +0000

Good hint. I wasn’t aware of that. I have my own domain which is handy as I subscribe to lists using des_listname etc etc but use my gmail account for a lot of potential spam.

I notice that using a in my gmail address isn’t acceptable to your comments system !!!