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What's so special about google mail?0
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Thanks so much, I was able to get a respectable sounding email name for use with job applications!Quidco: £192.36, Pigsback: £40 vouchers, MT: £32 vouchers, CI: £50 HPF: £137.57 Swagbucks: 99Lloyds TSB Loan: Cleared March 2008, 5 months early.Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no. 954 - Proud to be dealing with my debts!0
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Chall wrote:What's so special about google mail?
Free 'holiday' message;
Free POP3;
Free 2.8+Gb mailbox (never delete another e-mail);
Free personalised filters;
Free (VERY effective) spam filter;
Web access from anywhere (and/or use the free POP3);
Great new (OK, it's Beta at the moment) calendar/reminder function.
Get a new e-mail address each time for such things as car insurance hunting (register an address such as 'fiesta.insurance.2007@gmail.com' and use that when trawling websites - no more junk from the companies after making your selection - just stop checking the address).Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
An alternative top tip is you can make up as many addresses as you like by modifiing the email address by adding a + and then some other stuff
so if your username is sample and your normal address is sample@googlemail.com then you will also recieve emails to sample+moneysavingexpert@googlemail.com sample+insurancehunting@googlemail.com and so on. See the relevent google help answer.
I never give my REAL email to sites, so if signing up for a promotion on, say https://www.somethingorother.co.uk I would give them an address something likesample+somethingorother.co.uk@googlemail.comand then if I ever get spam to this address I know it is somethingorother.co.uk that have sold my address on (naughty, naughty) and can set up a filter to delete it (and never use their services again)0 -
mrweeble wrote:An alternative top tip is you can make up as many addresses as you like by modifiing the email address by adding a + and then some other stuff
so if your username is sample and your normal address is [EMAIL="sample@googlemail.com"]sample@googlemail.com[/EMAIL] then you will also recieve emails to sample+moneysavingexpert@googlemail.com sample+insurancehunting@googlemail.com and so on. See the relevent google help answer.
I never give my REAL email to sites, so if signing up for a promotion on, say www.somethingorother.co.uk I would give them an address something likesample+somethingorother.co.uk@googlemail.comand then if I ever get spam to this address I know it is somethingorother.co.uk that have sold my address on (naughty, naughty) and can set up a filter to delete it (and never use their services again)
However, don't companies (those employing humans instead of machines anyway) realise that simply deleting the +somethingorother.co.uk part gets them to your real address?
Or did I miss something there?Time has moved on (much quicker than it used to - or so it seems at my age) and my previous advice on residential telephony has been or is now gradually being overtaken by changes in the retail market. Hence, I have now deleted links to my previous 'pearls of wisdom'. I sincerely hope they helped save some of you money.0 -
Heinz wrote:On the face of it, very handy.
However, don't companies (those employing humans instead of machines anyway) realise that simply deleting the +somethingorother.co.uk part gets them to your real address?
Or did I miss something there?
There's another trick you can use that always works.
Google Mail/Gmail pays no attention to dots.
So [EMAIL="my.email.address@gmail.com"]my.email.address@gmail.com[/EMAIL] will go to [EMAIL="myemailaddress@gmail.com"]myemailaddress@gmail.com[/EMAIL]
When you sign up to sites, they have to treat them as different email addresses since the dot matters with most email providers.
Useful if you want to join up to the same site multiple times and they only want one user per email address.
Or if you want to filter into a label or mark as spam all email that has the dot in a certain place0 -
two very useful posts on permutations of Gmail addresses. I'm very impressed0
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Brilliant, this is great.
My Yahoo is so full of spam now, I can either use this for my vital stuff or use it for spam only. I'll have to decide!Money saved for Car Tax:
29/01/2007 Joined £2 Saver Club - £12.00 saved so far.
Money saved for furnishings for room:
eBay Auctions 2007 - £11.07 saved so far.
Money saved for house deposit:
Swear Tin - 1/5 full of loose change
Coopers and 5p jar - 1/4 full
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The setup only gives you the @googlemail.com but if you want a @gmail.com you have to get an invite.0
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