Last week, I had written a post about “5 Gmail feature that will spice up your inbox“, which thanks to you people was very well received. I started using Gmail for all my unofficial communication more than 2 years back and what I love about it its the small things. This particular feature is my favorite.

Let me try to explain this with an example, let’s consider a fictitious email address like greatgmail@gmail.com (Sorry if this id does exist). Do you know that all these combinations are all the same email id, great.gmail@gmail.com, gr.eatgmail.@gmail.com. Go ahead try it with your gmail id, if you already have a “.“, then move it from the current location to anywhere in the id before “@”, if you don’t have “.”, then add it anywhere in the email id and send a mail . You will receive the email.

Basically, no matter if you add a “.”  or move the “.” before the “@” in your Gmail id, Gmail still treats it the same. They all belong to you.  You may ask whats great about it, I put it to a lot of use, you can use your imagination. Two places where I find it handy,

1) Catch Spamming Website : A lot of websites ask you for your email address, promising you that they won’t spam you. But, you inbox ends up full of them. I use this feature of Gmail to submit different combination of my id to different sites, then I know exactly which ones are the spamming ones.

2) Register at the same site with the same ID: Many sites like Twitter, don’t allow you to create different user with the same email id. This feature will let you create as many as you want. Because each combination of your email would be treated as a separate email ID.

Hope you find this information useful, please don’t use this feature for troubling anyone or any website. Use wisely