Wow! All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses
You probably know how to create multiple email aliases in Gmail by adding the plus symbol and dots to your Gmail username but there’s something more interesting.
When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses - one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.
That means if your email address in Gmail is something like billgates@gmail.com, all email messages that are sent to billgates@googlemail.com will also be delivered to your own Gmail account. That’s two for the price of one.
Like the Gmail plus trick, you can take advantage of these two domains so that less spam reaches your Gmail Inbox.
Give the @googlemail.com address to your close contacts (put that in the visiting card) while keep the @gmail.com address for public (put it on your blog). Then set a Gmail filter such that all email messages with @googlemail.com in the header go a special folder so you will never miss important email from close friends.
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thanks Amit. nice interesting info regarding gmail. :)
C’mon, you didn’t knew that? It happens because in some european country Google did not have the right to use the trademark “Gmail” so they had to use Googlemail.com instead. I’m not sure, but I think it was Germany.
Thanks alot for this great tip! Now I can recode my spambot harvester to autogenerate @googlemail.com email addresses for every @gmail.com account I harvest. You’ve provided a great service to the spam community! Peace and love.
I do not think this is new! This is no doubt part the same opportunities that the use of plus or point
Very useful information. I am not aware of this before.
That’s neat, I never knew that before. Although, I don’t see how that would be different than giving your address with “+friend” or “+family” tacked on to it, accomplishes the same thing.
Because of a copyright issue in the UK, new gmail users are given @googlemail.com addresses automatically when they register. Apparently Google is not supposed to issue new @gmail.com addresses on this side of the pond.
However the funny thing is if they use username@gmail.com it still gets through.
also, any “.” in the email address is name part is ignored by gmail… for example:
bill.gates@gmail.com
billgates@gmail.com
b.ill.gat.es@gmail.com
and so on
will all get to the same email address.
the + trick is also good… its part of the official RFC whereby anything after the + in the name part of an email address is actually a “comment” - and as such, most spamming programs will strip that part out as its officially known that its not required.
This is cool, we can use multiple Gmail options from the same address. This is fantastic news thanks.
Also if you put a plus between two words it likes that too and is great for filtering mail
eg… lonnie+digitalinspiration@gmail.com
lonnie+di@gmail.com
lonnie+digg@gmail.com
etc….
Thanks for the info. I subscribe my blog feed as a back up to my 2nd Gmail address, which has label added to it and then it’s filtered separately…
Nice to know, but you can also use more than that. You can add tags to your email address with gmail by a plus sign then the tag before the @ sign. for instance:
username+tag@gmail.com
So say that your username is joeuser and you are giving your address to dodgeysite.com you could give them joeuser+dodgeysite.com@gmail.com and any mail that comes to that address can be filtered. If you find that they sold your address, you will know, because you will see who did it in the address (nice trick, that). You can then set up a little filter to trash anything to that address.
sounds reasonable, but
what if my contact knows this hack and he is too lazy to type googlemail.com instead of gmail? then the filter wont work ;)
Well perhaps you could’ve done that before you went and opened your big mouth. Now every spammer on the globe knows the trick.
I doubt if it will be helpful as the spammers can easily send to both @gmail.com and @googlemail.com
Hei..that good..not just the gmail is super power..more than that I thinks I really love gmail.
Spammers rejoice!
Honesly if it is a one to one relation, it cannot prevent spam at all.
I will strongly suggest having 2 emails account. One for close and professional contacts, the other for use when you want to leave comments on blogs and such.
That’s not of any great use in blocking spam. The ID remains the same. Hence it is a matter of just replacing gmail with googlemail.
If you want to avoid spam just use sneakemail.com for crying out loud!
You can have multiple gmail addresses as long as you include your original address either using the + method detailed above. Or you can use . anywhere in your email adddress before the @.
For example if your address is GeorgeBush@Gmail.com you can have G.eorgeBush@Gmail.com or George.Bush@Gmail.com
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I believe in Germany Google’s problems were that Daniel Giersch, had a pre-existing email service called G-mail, and in the UK, Independent International Investment Research’s use of gmail predate Google’s by 2 years. The EU’s trademark body, the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM), also turned down Googl’es attempt to invalidate Giersch’s claim to the name. What all this showed was just how inadequate Google’s (or their lawyers) IP searching was before launching gmail.
@googlemail.com for @gmail.com is very old news already. Gmail pioneers like me have known this since for 2 to 4 years already (depending if you count 2008 as a year transpired already)
Thats is a cool concept giving personal contacts the googlemail.com address and filter it :)
Guess some users know it already, but I didn’t … so thanks for sharing!
Hello…
i want to know how can i change my gmail extension from @gmail.com to @googlemail.com?
I prefer @googlemail.com most so that’s why i want to know :)
So, can anybody suggest me?
thanks