Disposable email address, also known as temporary email
address is handy when you need to sign in for unknown online service or
unfamiliar newsletter before you are quite sure you will need to use this
account in the future. Also, some useful services might be known by having
tendency to attract spam email hunters. Using temporary email address as anti-spam
solution is one of the best approaches. You may input the temporary email
address to sign up for services you only planning to use once and receive the
confirmation e-mail in your temporary anti-spam inbox.
There are multiple free services, offering you different
flavors of such disposable email addresses, but today we will present a method
to use your own Gmail address, but use it special way, which may cut the
spammers, but still deliver the message to your standard inbox.
Assuming that you need to sign up for a service by “Newsletter”
which requires you to first sign up with their mailing list or newsletter, but
you’re afraid spammers might get your address and spam your inbox with
nonsense. Let’s call the list “newsletter”. Assuming that your regular email
address is “JohnDoe@gmail.com”, sign up for this suspicious service using the email
address “JohnDoe+newsletter@gmail.com”.
Email, sent to that address, will still come to your “JohnDoe@gmail.com”
address even though the “To:” will include that “+newsletter” in it. Then, for
easy processing, set up Gmail filters to filter that “+newsletter” email in
your inbox to a specific label.
This operation will require 4 simple steps:
Step 1 – Click on the ‘nut’ button
Step 2 – Go to ‘Settings’
Step 3 – Click on the ‘Filter’ tab
Step 4 – Click on the link ‘Create new filter’
