You can append to your existing e-mail address in various ways, and this could be pretty useful for seeing who leaked your e-mail address to spammers. For example, for your bank, give them the address myaddress+banking@gamil.com. Then, if spammers send to that address, you can quickly see where they got the e-mail address from!

I’ve tested it with Proton Mail, and it works in exactly the same way.

See https://lifehacker.com/your-gmail-account-has-unlimited-addresses-1849809691

#technology #email #antispam #privacy

  • Kromonos@fapsi.be
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    2 years ago

    I wonder why so many people found this option just now, because Gmail supports it since the beginning.
    I configured my own mail server the same way. This mail tags are a great option to organize the own inbox. Works amazing, when the server also supports sieve.

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      2 years ago

      Well I can answer that because I just read about it today and thought it was quite interesting. So many still don’t know about it hence the post.

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          2 years ago

          Sorry for you both. It wasn’t meant personally, but more in general, because so many people don’t know about that feature.
          Ok, it’s not advertised very much, either.