Sunday, June 21, 2009

Gmail Aliases

Released in Jan 2009, Gmail now offers address aliases.

Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases, but you can receive messages sent to your.username+any.alias@gmail.com. For example, messages sent to jane.doe+notes@gmail.com are delivered to jane.doe@gmail.com.

You can set up filters to automatically direct these messages to Trash, apply a label or star, skip the inbox, or forward to another email account.

Slightly different from the shared folder concept in Sun Java System Messaging Server which I wrote about 2 days ago. 

Gmail offering is more suitably used as a filtering tool. 

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