cool gmail feature
Using a nifty feature in qmail, I am able to minimize my main email address's exposure to SPAM. Losing this feature was, I thought, a major drawback about switching to Gmail. Until I found a post out on the Interweb. (sorry, I can't seem to find the original post!) Gmail supports the same feature! Whereas qmail uses a '-' as the separator, Gmail uses a '+'. So, now when I sign up for accounts at other sites on the Interweb, I create a unique email address for that site.
For example, assume that my Gmail address is mygmailaddress@gmail.com. If I wanted to sign up for an account at Amazon, I could use an email address of mygmailaddress+amazon@gmail.com. Without making any changes within my Gmail account, any mail sent to mygmailaddress+amazon@gmail.com will automagically show up in my Inbox. Then, assuming that I have not used the email address anywhere else (on a 'blog posting, for example), if I start receiving SPAM to mygmailaddress+amazon@gmail.com, besides knowing that Amazon has sold me out to spammers, I can also change my email address at Amazon (to mygmailaddress+amazon2@gmail.com, for example) and then create a filter in Gmail to send email sent to mygmailaddress+amazon@gmail.com straight to the trash.
on December 28th, 2005 at 8:21 am
I am not only a Hokie, but a red sox fan. You can read my response on my blog if your interested in despondant rambling and a little ranting. I've gone from disappointment to anger and now, finally, acceptance. I think I skipped a few steps in the stages of grief.
In our house he is now known as 'Johnny Fucking Damon.'