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Multiple accounts, one Gmail.

daren-schwenkeDaren Schwenke wrote 02/10/2019 at 21:25 • 1 min read • Like

Gmail strips the periods added between first and last name, and will happily deliver all your mail sent to first<insert period(s)>lastname@gmail.com to firstlastname@gmail.com

Most sites count that as seperate emails, allowing you to have multiple accounts, with the same email.

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Elliot Williams wrote 03/11/2019 at 20:27 point

But... just b/c your account is run on Gmail, don't think it automatically works.  We had to add an e-mail alias for my.name@hackaday.com after I got business cards printed based on this assumption. 

For fake/disposable/identifiable e-mails, I can only extremely heartily recommend Spamgourmet.  It's been an awesome (nearly) 20 spam-free years for me.  For real.

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Ted Yapo wrote 02/10/2019 at 23:21 point

thank you Daren...Schwenke!

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Daren Schwenke wrote 02/10/2019 at 23:58 point

You are a funny...guy.  :)

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Ted Yapo wrote 02/11/2019 at 00:34 point

I really meant it, too. I didn't know this, and it may come in useful.

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Daren Schwenke wrote 02/11/2019 at 01:27 point

There was a time when I would set up individual email accounts in the attempt to segregate project, business, and personal emails. I also went down the email forwarding rabbit hole. This has proven to be a much simpler solution.

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Ken Yap wrote 02/10/2019 at 23:07 point

This is no secret, it's been known for a long time. It's even in a Google help document: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en In fact any number of periods between the letters are ignored, so you can squeeze out more than two names.

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Daren Schwenke wrote 02/10/2019 at 23:11 point

Thanks. That last bit is actually useful!  Never needed to go beyond 2 yet, and I have no idea if this is common knowledge.  Just popped in my head so I thought I would share.

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