Question about Gmail

[Uncle Otto]

I just recently opened a Gmail account, so I'm still kind of new to it. Right now I also use Yahoo Mail Plus for my primary email account. That allows me to have up to 500 disposable email addresses in use at any one time. I really like the feature, and I use it for online registrations and that kind of thing.

I have discovered that you can do something similar in Gmail using something called sub-addressing. You simply take the existing address, use the + sign to add something to it and use it for only one thing with an entity or individual.

Now if I start getting spam or anything else I don't want in one of the Yahoo addresses, I just delete it from the underlying Yahoo account and that's that. No more spam from that source. In Gmail however, it looks to me that once you give out a sub-address, there is no way to delete it in the same sense as a true disposable. You can just stop using it of course, but that's not the same thing. That other party can still send email to it and the only way to stop it would be to set up a rule in Gmail that directs it elsewhere.

So am I correct in that assessment, or am I missing something?

 

[Beerina]

I've created throwaways for registrations, or to send an anonymous email to a coworker that his divorce papers from a lawyer were sitting in the fax machine, but I've never put them as a sub-account.

 

[rjh01]

You can delete any e-mail you do not want automatically. You do this by using filters. Method
1.On the right hand side there a gear. Click on it. A menu appears.
2. Click on settings
3. Click the filters tab
4. Click on Create a new filter.
5. Complete the dialog boxes that appear.

If one of your e-mail addresses starts producing junk then use the above to delete it. Another use is to put the e-mails into labels.
Problem solved.

 

[Sam.I.Am]

Besides all of that Gmails internal spam filters work pretty well. I actually see maybe, maybe, 2 spams a month but my spam folder is always being added to automagically by Gmail. The only time I look in there is if I haven't gotten a reply from a web sites registration system that I was expecting but didn't get.

 

[Ryokan]

Gmail's spam filter is amazing. I only get 2-3 a year.

But if you do get one, you can mark it and report as spam. That further reduces the chance you (and everyone else) will get spam.

 

[rjh01]

Gmail's spam filter is amazing. I only get 2-3 a year.

But if you do get one, you can mark it and report as spam. That further reduces the chance you (and everyone else) will get spam.

Interesting. I used to get heaps of spam. I just checked. I have only four spam messages in the last 30 days. Someone has stopped most of the spam. If you are reading this then WELL DONE!