Unexplored Feature in Gmail

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Here are two unexplored features in GMail that will can make your Gmail inbox spam proof.

You can then comfortably share your gmail email address on websites, mailing lists and forums without ever worrying about spam or solving CAPTCHAs.

Gmail Easter Egg 1: GMail allows email aliases and unlike Yahoo mail which lets you create just one extra email alias, GMail lets you create infinite number of aliases.

An email sent to barrack.obama@gmail.com or barrack.obama+fans@gmail.com or barrack.obama+blog@gmail.com will all be redirected to one common email address and that is barrack.obama@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 separats gmail folders or apply different labels.

So all emails with the TO: address as barrack.obama+blog@gmail.com [coming from his blog readers] can be automatically redirected to a blog folder in gmail and she can safely trash them when his inbox is approaching the 2 GB limit.

Gmail Easter Egg 2: Gmail cannot recognize dots or periods in email addresses or the user names – that means an address like barrack.obama@gmail.com is the same as barrack.o.bama@gmail.com or barrack…obama@gmail.com.

This is actually a bug than a feature but you can again exploit it to have different kind of email address in your forum signatures.

Keep in mind that 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.

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  1. September 1st, 2009 at 11:50
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    owah keren neh sobat,terimasih buat infonya y..

    jadi lebih nyaman tanpa spammer he..

    but,good luck mas

  2. September 1st, 2009 at 23:39
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    nice info.
    ijin copas gan. :cool:

  3. September 2nd, 2009 at 12:33
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    Wow makasih infonya

    apa khabarnya hehehe ?

  4. September 2nd, 2009 at 13:32
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    saya sudah tau mengenai hal ini.menarik sekali, kita bisa mendaftar beberapa akun dari satu layanan dengan mengunakan satu email

  5. September 2nd, 2009 at 21:43
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    Yups. Saya lebih setuju penggunaan alamat email dengan . (dot) daripada _ (underscores) yg umum digunakan oleh Y!Mail. Kayaknya emang lebih modern aja hehehe… :)
    Thanks mas infonya…

  6. September 4th, 2009 at 20:52
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    aku baru tahu lo mas..jadi penggunaan email alias ini mksdnya kita buat email baru lagi gt ya mas?
    atau ada di fitur gmail nya?

  7. September 4th, 2009 at 23:52
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    @koko James
    Bukan :( tapi dengan satu alamat email Anda bisa mempunyai berbagai macam email alias ;) (contoh: koko.james@gmail.com akan sama saja dengan ko.ko.ja.mes@gmail.com, k.o.k.o.james@gmail.com, koko.james+blog@gmail.com atau yang lainnya berdasarkan penjelasan di atas) Ini bisa Anda manfaatkan untuk memanaje email pada kotak masuk Anda.

  8. haji achmads
    September 9th, 2009 at 12:34
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    weeeeyyy… bener…bener…keren infonya
    skr qt pd tau dech
    acungan jempol empat2nya

  9. September 22nd, 2009 at 10:44
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    Mau tny dunk,gmn cara kirim foto dr gmail,kok gk ad menuny y,saya menggunakan hp sony.tolong blz k email saya y,thx saya tunggu

  10. apip
    October 19th, 2009 at 15:28

    emangnya knapa getoch ?

  11. Kumprung
    December 16th, 2009 at 09:31

    :O manx gx bsa yach krm fto langsng dr srvr’y..?
    Klu mng gx bsa tlung donx ksh tw cr’y…¿

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