Recently I had to do some work with the signup flow for an app. The app signup was a two part process.
I was dealing with lots of different user types and variations depending on some options chosen whilst attempting to sign up. But with all these different users types, I had to use a unique email address.
It was then I learnt a neat little email “feature” that not only sped up my development time but offered some nice side effects outside of development in daily email administration.
With Gmail (and other email providers) is it possible to change your email address but still have the emails come to your primary inbox using either/or the + symbol or the . symbol
For example: jonsnow+stark@gmail.com will ignore anything after and including the + symbol
Very useful. During the sign up development task I had, this meant I didn’t have to delete the email address from the database every time I wanted to create a new app registration. Speeding things up considerably.
Beyond that, imagine finding out which company sold all your information next time you signup for a newsletter or online offer.
ihatespam+company-x@gmail.com (so it was company X the whole time! 🤬)
Or perhaps you’d like to organise your inbox by filtering on anything you put after the +
Bare in mind that you will only be changing the first part of your email address before the @ sign. The @gmail.com portion must remain intact.
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