Find out who gives away your email address with Gmail trick


I do not mind if you are using Gmail than Windows Live Mail (formerly Hotmail), as I’m a Gmail fan myself (loads way faster for me) 😉
Have you ever wonder which website gave out your email when you register yourself in some website? Here’s a simple trick you can use:
If your Gmail login name was username@gmail.com and you went to samplesite.com to fill out a registration form, instead of just entering username@gmail.com 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 username@gmail.com.
Now whats cool is 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.
Does it work? I haven’t try it out but reports say that it works!
Does Windows Live Mail have something similar? Is there something in the works? What do you think of this feature? Leave a message! 🙂
Source: http://www.hedir.com/introduction/about17942.html
Update: According to Kevyn, Yahoo Mail already has this implemented. It is called “AddressGuard”. You use [basename]-[keyword]@yahoo.com. Thanks Kevyn!
Posted in Computing | 2 Comments »
January 8th, 2007 at 6:19 am
Yahoo! Mail already has it. It’s quite different, but it’s useful to create temporary addresses called alias. This technology is called AddressGuard, and gives the possibility to create a [basename]-[keyword]@yahoo.com address. And you can choose any [keyword] as you want.
January 8th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
[…] GMail heeft daar een leuk truukje voor, heb ik net vernomen: als je je registreert op een site (bv. “dezesite.com”) en er wordt gevraagd om een email adres in te geven, geef dan i.p.v. je normale gmail-adres (bv. mijn.adres@gmail.com) een combinate van je email adres én de naam van de betreffende site in, gescheiden door een “+” teken (in het voorgaande voorbeeld wordt dat dus mijn.adres+dezesite.com@gmail.com) […]