Gmail Hack: Different Users From the Same Address
Flagrantdisregard.com have written a nice little piece on creating multiple users [writers] from the one gmail address. Their example for use is a parent who wants their young children to be able to send emails to friends and family without the parent needing to write it.
My kids, 6 and 4, are too young to have their own email accounts. Email software is too complex for them and they can’t type anyway. Besides, I don’t want them exposed to the kind of spam I get on a regular basis. Fortunately, most email apps let you setup multiple identities on one account.
My understanding is this hack works for most email accounts, but we will show the example for Gmail.
Suppose your Gmail address is Alice@gmail.com and your child’s name is Johnny. To send mail from your Gmail account with Johnny’s name in the From line:
1. Go into Settings, click Accounts, then Add another email address
2. Now enter Johnny’s name and Alice+Johnny@gmail.com as the address.
Now you are able to send emails with Johnny’s name as the sender. This is great for families who stay in contact with family through emails. The name changes, but the address remains the same.
However, this isn’t the only use.
I have an online business I run with a friend. We both use the same email for said business and converse with prospects others in the industry.
With this handy hack we can now do one better than a generic email from ‘our business’ and personalize the interaction further by having two users. Something that will make correspondence make a little more sense, and I think, more professional.
How to give your young children a personalized (managed) email address - [FlagrantDisregard]
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David Nesting says on February 7th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I use this + technique to separate out multiple virtual addresses when I give out e-mail addresses to web sites. (Then when they turn around and sell it to spammers, I can clearly see who did it.)
The only caveat is that many e-mail address validation routines used by popular web sites think that the + sign in an e-mail address is invalid. It’s an uphill battle trying to get that corrected. I usually try and be helpful about it and point them to RFC2822, but when I get a response (rare to begin with), they just turn it around and say, “Plus signs are not permitted in e-mail addresses on this site.”
(And then there are the sites where they improperly apply URI escaping rules to form fields, converting the plus sign into a space!)
Jaco says on February 7th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
you could also use a.lice@gmail.com
Jaco says on February 7th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
I thought there was email protection, sorry.
Pascal Van Hecke says on February 8th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Hi,
Your quote:
“My understanding is this hack works for most email accounts, but we will show the example for Gmail.”
The trick of youraccount+differentiator@… is a peculiar feature of Gmail alone… It does NOT work with other email providers. However, it has led to a lot of interesting “hacks”, most notably the GTD mail extension for Firefox: http://www.gtdgmail.com/ (the David Nesting idea being a nice one as well).
t says on March 16th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Yo nice. PEACE!
anjali says on July 20th, 2007 at 2:52 am
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send me at this id
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aryan says on July 20th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
i need my mothers id. password she has lost it & has all her important mails in it…plz send the pass to sahilsecret@gmail.com
her id is: sharmaanuradha2@gmail.com
Ramit says on August 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
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Ramit says on August 7th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
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CHUDA LE
Desree says on August 31st, 2007 at 9:16 am
Guys, I really need some help here. I have to find the pass for this user: miruna.trica@gmail.com
Of course, I could give you whatever explanation, true or not; but I really need this pass. Any help would be highly appreciated.
Please send the answer at my_safe_copy@yahoo.com
Thanks a million!
collins says on August 31st, 2007 at 11:30 am
some one cracked my gmail password for the user id ctchacko3084@gmail.com
I need help in retreiving my password. Friends, please help.
priya nanda says on October 22nd, 2007 at 7:30 am
hi,
it’s urgent .I need password of priyananda100@gmail.com.She is my wife .But i m in very much tense .Do not know wht is happening in life . Pls help me
pls contact me on this id sunil.nanda001@gmail.com after getting password
Thanks
sunil
diyana says on October 25th, 2007 at 7:59 am
hi my name is diyana. i want to hack my boyfriends password .i think he is cheating. his email id is anshusuri@gmail.com can u plz hack his password for me i’ll be really greatfull to u.
diyana
diyana says on October 25th, 2007 at 8:02 am
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aman says on October 27th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
hi my name is aman. i want to hack password who is writing me abuse scraps . his email id is lunpop@gmail.com can u plz hack his password for me i’ll be really greatfull to u.
Amir says on March 15th, 2008 at 10:50 am
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maktoobe@gmail.com
Amir says on March 15th, 2008 at 11:00 am
Plz send me password on that mail thanxxxx a lottttt
selc.managment@yahoo.com
Karan Kashyap says on May 26th, 2008 at 2:25 am
Guys, all i want to say is “DON’T TYPE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESSES ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET”.
It can be easily hacked. Keep it wid you to be secure or get it hacked by some1.