One of GMail's handier features that people are still surprised to learn about is the ability to make multiple, unique address aliases on the fly.
If your GMail address is example@gmail.com, emails sent to example+user1@gmail.com, example+user2.gmail.com, example+admin@gmail.com will all go to the root example@gmail.com address.
This is often touted as a handy filtering device within GMail, but I've come to rely on it during Drupal development. It's ideal for creating throw away e-mail addresses that I can use for user registration. This way,
- You don't have to maintain umpteen separate e-mail accounts for testing.
- You don't have to keep going back and deleting accounts to reuse a single address.
- All of those system welcome e-mail addresses go to one place.
Yes, email aliasing would
Yes, email aliasing would definitely work in this case
An interesting thing with
An interesting thing with gmail is that you can, at any point in your address add a period "." (i.e. jennyloveshotdogs@gmail.com, jenny.loveshotdogs@gmail.com or jennyloves.hotdogs@gmail.com). In any case, the email will still be delivered to the same place in the gmail account.
Because many email validators don't allow the plus "+" sign, this option can act as an alternative.
Convenient
Ive been using this for a while, really helpful if you're managing different accounts.
I find gmail a bit annoying
I find gmail a bit annoying but its fast too..
Yes, email aliasing would
Yes, email aliasing would definitely work in this case
This is one of the features
This is one of the features of Gmail that really makes it my favorite email provider.
Nothing else comes close.
Oh yeah, I love this
Oh yeah, I love this feature, too!
I remember hearing about it sometime ago, and it does save time if you need a different email address for any reason. :)
Thanks
I seldom use Gmail, more on Yahoo. I find that Yahoo are more user friendly. Nevertheless, thanks for the update.
Something to say thank you
Something to say thank you for. Gmail being my favoured mail provider too.
I have not heard of this
I have not heard of this feature before but as you said it would be very useful when testing for account set-ups when testing and configuring paypal sandbox.
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