If you are wanting to use a gmail account to see if people are farming out your email address, then this little dittie can be for you. Remember, this is best done if you use a junk gmail account because you will receive junk email possibly. I found this on a forum and posted by PCBGuy:
“When you give your email address to a website, you hope that they don’t sell or trade your address to a bunch of spammers. Well if they do, here is a simple way to see what sites are responsible for what particular piece of email. This requires you have a Gmail account.
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. “
Source: Hedir Review.
Handy to know.
yeah it’s annoying getting jukmail but gmail does a god job filtering the spam
this is really cool.Its really irritating why people smap it.I dont see any use.
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Thats a common trick but I’ve found quite a few badly coded sites that don’t allow + in the email address
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