One Awesome Gmail Tip you Didn't Know About. Seriously.

I was searching through random websites when I came across this article. I think this is pretty cool and I am going to start using it! (If you want to jump ahead, read the bottom part, it sounds pretty nifty.)

Here is the link if you want to read it straight from the website:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/1-awesome-gmail-tip-you-dont-know-about-seriously/

One Awesome Gmail Tip you Didn't Know About

Just about when I thought I got everything out of Gmail, I discovered my top favorite feature.

Let’s say that your email address is ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
GeorgeBush@gmail.com
G.eorgeBush@gmail.com
Ge.orgeBush@gmail.com
……
GeorgeBus.h@gmail.com
GeorgeBush@googlemail.com
G.eorgeBush@googlemail.com
Ge.orgeBush@googlemail.com
……
GeorgeBus.h@googlemail.com


And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘G.e.o.r.g.e.B.u.s.h@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘GeorgeBush@gmail.com’



Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘GeorgeBush+anythingyouwant@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well. [read below]

Ok I got it. Now what ?

1. One email for every purpose
Instead of using different email addresses for various purposes (work, school, friends, etc.) you can use different variations of your Gmail and filter incoming mails by ’sent to’ address. For instance, all incoming mail sent to ‘Name.Surname@gmail.com’ can be put to folder ‘work’, messages sent to ‘NameSurname@gmail.com’ can be put to ‘friends’, ‘N.ameSurname@gmail.com’ can be used for newsletters, and so on.

2. Track/Block spammers
When signing up for some website, say thatwebsite.com, you can add thatwebsite to your Gmail user ID (eg. GeorgeBush+thatwebsite@gmail.com). This way you can block your subscription whenever you want and even identify those websites that distribute your email address to spammers.

[Edit=After some research, I have found that the first part of this article only works on some servers. The second part will only work on websites that haven't set up a block on email addresses with a + sign. But it will always work if you email something directly. One person mentioned emailing himself and using the + sign to have the email filtered automatically into a set folder. ]