Comments on: Two Gmail Hacks for Fighting Spam

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:26:46 +0000

Kit - thanks for being so honest. However, ‘outdated’ doesn’t mean what you think it means. This information is old, but still very relevant and obviously helpful to a lot of people.

I’ve owned my own domain name for years, so I’ve always used a suffix for each account I set up - lifeclever.good@mydomain.com as an example - I used to use procmail to forward *.good to my actual inbox and trash everything else (now I use a gmail domain catch-all address)

By: kit

kit — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:09:19 +0000

Honestly, the + trick has been around for years. This is so outdated.

By: Mookie Crunchbucket

Mookie Crunchbucket — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:33:04 +0000

Yeah, but I feel sorry for that mrmarkymark@gmail.com SOB…

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:43:34 +0000

I have something even better. I use 4 POP mail accounts that are flooded with spam. I noticed the spam filter in GMail is very good, so i’ve redirected all the mail going into the pop accounts to gmail. From Outlook i only check GMail now instead of 4 accounts and all the spam is caught by GMail :)

Other benefits include: - all email in one place - can access all my emails from any internet enabled device

By: IPTVSpy

IPTVSpy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:18:16 +0000

Here’s another, to fend off a new attack that employs a vulnerability with GMail forwarding and filters.

http://diggreponsitory.blogspot.com/2007/12/spammers-penetrate-gmail-spam-filters.html

By: Chanpory Rith

Chanpory Rith — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:24:29 +0000

Hey everyone, thanks for the extra Gmail hacks. I didn’t even realize googlemail.com works with any gmail account as well. Sweet.

By: Stephane

Stephane — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:53:14 +0000

Hello,

This will not help with the spam problem.

Think about it, nothing is simpler for an email address harvester than removing what’s after the “+” and add that to the email database…

Those are neat tricks to keep your emails organized (with adequate filters), though !

Stéphane

By: Amit Elhanan

Amit Elhanan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:05:34 +0000

Yeah, thanks for that, I will start using the plus hack for differentiating between different sites I sign up for. especially with all the cool web 2.0 sites that are popping up.

By: Arno

Arno — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:18:15 +0000

Note that addresses are not case sensitive too.

It’s not a Gmail functionality, but MTA one. (Posfix/Sendmail/etc).

Nice tip btw.

By: Nik

Nik — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:05:41 +0000

Nice list! The plus hack doesn’t work for all websites. In fact, the majority I’ve tried them on, has failed since (just as the . used to be troublesome to register) many websites don’t recognize the + as a correct email symbol.

If all else fails, I just make another gmail account just for registrations :). (Since you can have all your mail forwarded to one account, this isn’t a problem either).