Gmail feature to fight spam

When you need to give your e-mail address on a non-trusted website (to be able to download a file or access some specific information), you never known how your address will be handled!

Google Mail has a nice feature to catch unsollicited emails. If you have an address <foobar@gmail.com>, you can use your address as <foobar+ANYSTRING@gmail.com>. Google will deliver this mail into your mailbox without problem.

You just have to add a filter to catch “ANYSTRING” in the To: field and move the mail to the Spam folder!

2 comments

  1. What I like with the “+SPAM” method: you are able to track who did not respect your privacy!
    Use addresses such as <foobar+SPAM_www.badsite.com@gmail.com>. If emails are sent to this address by a third party, “www.badsite.com” is in trouble with the law against privacy…

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