Figure out who's selling your email address

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by a7a7, Jun 10, 2007.

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    Figure out who's selling your email address

    • Instead of just entering as your email, enter it as username+samplesitecom@gmail.com instead
    • When Gmail sees a "+" in an email address, it uses all the characters to the left of the plus sign to know who to send it to. In this example it would still send it to .
    • If you search Gmail for username+samplesitecom, you will see all massages that were sent to that email address.
    • To see who is responsible for sending a specific message click the Show Details link and you will see the complete address.

    Quite handy! ;)

    found it via google on: http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/figure-out-whos-selling-your-email-address-215174.php



    btw,
    i myself use http://www.mailinator.com for dummy short lived email account for all crap site sign ups ;)
     
    a7a7, Jun 10, 2007 IP
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    Hehe funny. Its nice to what directory owners that spam you after submitting. Its not many though:)
     
    login, Jun 10, 2007 IP