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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. Related Posts:GMail Hacks and Tips Extravaganza I am amazed at how creative people are. And that's what hacking is all about - learning, tweaking, creating.... Google Online Storage “My Stuff” Rumored And now the race is on to give users free online storage space. Microsoft is now offering a service called... Google Calendar Ok, I don't usually like to jump onto the Google announcement bandwagon, but I really like their new Calendaring system.... Windows Networking Troubleshooting One of the most infuriating aspects of having a home or small business network can be the network itself. ... Firefox Hack & Trick Smackdown The more I use Firefox, the more I like it. One of the great features of Firefox is its extendability.... Comments6 Comments so far |
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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.
[…] PaulTech blogged about a pretty cool method for discovering which websites are sharing your Gmail address. […]
Thats a common trick but I’ve found quite a few badly coded sites that don’t allow + in the email address
[…] PaulTech blogged about a pretty cool method for discovering which websites are sharing your Gmail address. […]