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<blockquote data-quote="h@ker" data-source="post: 384" data-attributes="member: 6"><img src="http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2007/06/Gmail.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />You can reformat your existing Gmail address by inserting dots (periods) anywhere within your Gmail username.&nbsp; The Gmail Help pages explain:Because Gmail doesn&#039;t recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won&#039;t change the actual destination address. Messages sent to <a href="mailto:yourusername@gmail.com">yourusername@gmail.com</a> and <a href="mailto:y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com">y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com</a> are all delivered to your Inbox, and only yours.We&#039;ve talked about how you can <a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/generate-unlimited-email-addresses-with-gmail-199280.php" target="_blank">create unlimited Gmail addresses</a> using the &quot;+&quot; sign before - a technique lots of people use to automatically filter messages.&nbsp; Periods could be used for the same purpose.&nbsp; (Note that Google Apps for Your Domain does NOT ignore dots in addresses.) Thanks, <a href="http://lifehacker.com/commenter/3xSteve/" target="_blank">3xSteve!</a><a href="http://lifehacker.com/commenter/3xSteve/" target="_blank"></a>&nbsp;<a href="http://lifehacker.com/commenter/3xSteve/" target="_blank">[URL=&quot;https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&amp;hl=en&amp;answer=10313&quot;]Am I receiving someone else&#039;s email?</a> [Gmail][/URL]<a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=NPA9PD" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=NPA9PD" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />&lt;/img&gt;</a><a href="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail-tip/reformat-your-gmail-address-with-dots-269619.php" target="_blank">More...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="h@ker, post: 384, member: 6"] [IMG]http://lifehacker.com/assets/resources/2007/06/Gmail.gif[/IMG]You can reformat your existing Gmail address by inserting dots (periods) anywhere within your Gmail username. The Gmail Help pages explain: [INDENT]Because Gmail doesn't recognize dots as characters within usernames, adding or removing dots from a Gmail address won't change the actual destination address. Messages sent to [email]yourusername@gmail.com[/email] and [email]y.o.u.r.u.s.e.r.n.a.m.e@gmail.com[/email] are all delivered to your Inbox, and only yours.[/INDENT]We've talked about how you can [URL="http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/generate-unlimited-email-addresses-with-gmail-199280.php"]create unlimited Gmail addresses[/URL] using the "+" sign before - a technique lots of people use to automatically filter messages. Periods could be used for the same purpose. (Note that Google Apps for Your Domain does NOT ignore dots in addresses.) [I]Thanks, [URL="http://lifehacker.com/commenter/3xSteve/"]3xSteve![/URL][/I][URL="http://lifehacker.com/commenter/3xSteve/"] [URL="https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=10313"]Am I receiving someone else's email?[/URL] [Gmail] [/URL][URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=NPA9PD"][IMG]http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=NPA9PD[/IMG]</img>[/URL] [url=http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail-tip/reformat-your-gmail-address-with-dots-269619.php]More...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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