Disposable gmail addresses

[vizual.menace]

Here is a cool gmail trick I thought I would share.

 

Let's say you need to sign up for a mailing list that interests you, but you're afraid spammers might get your address. We'll call the list "exoticflowers". Sign up with the list using the address "johndoe+exoticflowers@gmail.com". Email to that address will still come to your "johndoe@gmail.com" address even though the "To:" will include that "+exoticflowers" in it. Then set up Gmail filters to shuttle that +exoticflowers email past the inbox to a specific label.

 

 

Thanks to http://lifehacker.com for the tip.

[kevin_4e]

That's pretty neat and worth-while. Good find.

[other]

I use this all the time, even for insanelymac

[A Nonny Moose]

It's easier for me to forward all that kind of {censored} to a dummy hotmail account.

[SLy CaT]

It's easier for me to forward all that kind of {censored} to a dummy hotmail account.

 

but then you'd have to login into the crappy hotmail account XD

 

 

thanks for the reminder to setup filters and use this method for certain sites. i knew i was supposed to set something up a while ago.. but i had forgotten what it was... <.<;;

[A Nonny Moose]

I only log into it to clean it out, so there's no bother to me there. It's better than having a clean gmail account littered with (filtered) spam.