One of the best hidden tricks of Gmail, quite well known but used by few people, is the possibility of using infinite different Email addresses for the same account . Basically, if you have to send an email to an email address like , it is equivalent if you write as recipient and so nothing changes if you send the message to .
For each email address with Gmail there are therefore hundreds or infinite other equivalent addresses, just add a + word, without spaces, before the @ .
If it makes no difference for the person who sends the email to put or as recipient, the recipient can instead use as many addresses as he wants to create filters and differentiate the messages according to the type or sender .
A useful way to use the infinite personalized addresses of Gmail is to subscribe to the newsletter.
The next time we sign up for a newsletter on a promotion site or blog like this, instead of using our normal email address, we can use an address like .
In this way, it will become very easy, in Gmail, to create a filter so as to group all the messages sent to this address with a low priority label or folder such as that of the Updates .
Even better, you might want to differentiate each newsletter you subscribe to, for example, by adding a specific word after the + that identifies that site or service.
For example, to subscribe to the Navigaweb.net newsletter (from the box on the right), you could use the and so on for any other registration that sends automatic emails.
This could create problems in the creation of filters, but it can be useful to automatically spam messages from sites that have requested the registration of the email (don't do it with emails from Navigaweb.net!).
The filter can also mark messages as read or archive them to avoid clutter in the main mailbox.
Just as some messages can be automatically marked as unimportant, the opposite can obviously be done.
For example, you can ask friends and family to write to and then set up a filter to mark received messages as priority and important .
Another way of using the many email addresses that Gmail makes available to each registered user is the separation of work and personal emails.
For example, you can use an address like and create the usual filter to distinguish work messages from the rest.
This system of receiving mails on different addresses of the same account, besides making the mail more orderly, also facilitates searches a lot.
It doesn't end there: Gmail also offers another type of email address for an account by putting @ googlemail.com instead of @ gmail.com .
So sending an email to is exactly like sending it to .
The trick of different email addresses all for the same Gmail account offers a great opportunity to sort mail, avoid spam and automate actions without getting dirty and confusing in the main mailbox.
All this has an excellent effect on reading emails from smartphones, where Gmail allows you to enable or disable notifications for each different label.
If you create a Gmail email address to receive important messages, you can then make sure that they also notify the smartphone.
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