Your gmail email id's little known twin

Do you have a gmail email id?

If you do, then you have another email id too right from the day you got your gmail id.

This email id looks something like this:

yourname@googlemail.com

This email id is in addition to your regular email id withe gmail:

yourname@gmail.com

Most people don't known about this twin either, until I read about it in a blog:

http://tips-hindi.blogspot.com/2008/10/gmail.html

I thought I will share it with you.

You might ask what's the advantage of having two email ids. The advantages are obvious, you can control spam drastically by using these two ids judiciously.

When you surf you are often asked to enter email ids on sites, which then send you a lot of unwanted promotional material. You can choose one of these email ids exclusively for such purpose and use the other for serious emails.

Also if someone is pestering you to give him/her your email, but you are not keen on receiving emails from him/her, you can given one of the email ids that you have reserved for spam emails.

Not very kind on him/her, but then you have a right to privacy too.

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Dr Pushkar
Dr Pushkar
from Mumbai
15 years ago
Knew it since long, very useful trick. Has anyone used the transliteration feature in gtalk? Very interesting way to chat.
Tangerine
Tangerine
from Assam
15 years ago

cool... i will check out my other account right now!

Tangerine

Bishwajeet Mahato
Bishwajeet Mahato
from Jamshedpur
15 years ago

me too didnt knew this trick from starting bt someone told me bout it in Orkut

No you can filter the emails coming to one of the ids using the filter setting. The exact procedure is explained in the link I have mentioned above.

So if you set one of the email ids to spam folder, all the emails received on that email id will go to the spam folder and you will never see them on your mailbox.

Samuel
Samuel
from Hyderabad / Pilani
15 years ago

Gmail is already very good at spam filtering.. Ive had no problems with spam coming on to my inbox with gmail..

btw.. aren't both googlemail and gmail the same.. No matter which address you send a mail to, it reaches the same inbox... so its not a twin id..


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