Gmail Aliases
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I've always been a fan of using aliases, I use it alot with my Outlook.com email. But I never knew if Gmail or at least the free service supports alias. Until recently while searching for best practices using Gmail. I found out that your Gmail address is capable of using aliases.
Append a plus ("+") and any combination of words or numbers before @gmail.com.
For example, if your email is [email protected] you can send emails to [email protected] or [email protected].And when emails are sent to those addresses you can use labels to help organize them more easier too.
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we use gsuite (paid version of google stuff) at work and we extensively use aliases for automatic labelling and classification. this is really useful!
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It's not so much an alias as a catch all. It always uses your original address in the name.
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@scottalanmiller said in Gmail Aliases:
It's not so much an alias as a catch all. It always uses your original address in the name.
with gsuite you can actually do other: my mail is just an alias to the tech office mail as example.
my systems use an alias to send logs (it is something like: robot@...).the plus trick is just a basic one.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Gmail Aliases:
@scottalanmiller said in Gmail Aliases:
It's not so much an alias as a catch all. It always uses your original address in the name.
with gsuite you can actually do other: my mail is just an alias to the tech office mail as example.
my systems use an alias to send logs (it is something like: robot@...).the plus trick is just a basic one.
Oh yes, of course. Any commercial email system will offer aliases.
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Is there any additional functionality vs making an automatic labeling rule?
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usually aliasing is used to assign different roles to your mail box. as instance , when we send invoices to customers we do it from our account mail but it is aliased "invoices" this allows us to better track things.
