For Gmail:
3 ways to add a temporary alias to your Gmail address
Here’s how to create Gmail aliases and set filters to manage your account.
1. Use the dot
Suppose your email address is
[email protected]. Now, if you add one or more dot/period anywhere in between your email address, Gmail will still treat it as your email. That means:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
are all the same email addresses.
So, in a way, all these are aliases of your original email
[email protected]. Google will ignore the dots and all emails sent to these aliases will appear in your main inbox. But most other services will treat all the above email addresses as separate emails.
You must not use two dots together. For example, avoid
[email protected]
2. Use the plus sign
If you add the plus sign (+) at the end of your Gmail address, Gmail still treats it as the same email. In fact, after the plus sign, you can add anything else you like, and Gmail will ignore everything that’s between + and the @ sign. That means:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
are all the same email addresses in the eyes of Google.
So, if you sign up for a newsletter, just give them
[email protected] email. The emails sent to this will still show up in your main
[email protected] account. And you can use filters to organize your emails.
3. Googlemail and Gmail
When you create a Gmail email (or Google account), you have your usual
[email protected] email address. What you might not know is you also get
[email protected] email address. That means:
[email protected]
[email protected]
are the same email addresses.
And if some service sends you an email to
[email protected], it will show in
[email protected] Gmail account.