[lavar78]

I heard a great Gmail trick from Kevin Rose. When you want to sign up for something that may spam you, you can give your Gmail address as myaccount+spam@gmail.com. It will still be delivered, but you can set up a filter (to: +spam) that will automatically move, label, and/or archive the message. In more general terms, you can use addresses like these to automatically sort and filter your mail.

[ManOfSteal]

I have a dedicated Yahoo! e-mail address just for this SPAM purpose that I use when buying on-line, works great! I also have a few .Mac aliases that accomplishes the same task. It's always fun to see who promised not to sell the information to anybody else, yet I catch them because I'll get a SPAM e-mail to my .Mac alias of "newpurchasefrom<insert vendor>@mac.com"...busted!

[stevesnj]

Originally Posted by lavar78

I heard a great Gmail trick from Kevin Rose. When you want to sign up for something that may spam you, you can give your Gmail address as myaccount+spam@gmail.com. It will still be delivered, but you can set up a filter (to: +spam) that will automatically move, label, and/or archive the message. In more general terms, you can use addresses like these to automatically sort and filter your mail.

I still can't get my gmail to work with Mail.app anyone have any problems or workaround?

[OwlBoy]

he heard this on Diggnation btw Great Podcast:

http://www.diggnation.com

Digg.com rocks too!

http://www.digg.com

-Owl

[lavar78]

Did you enable POP access within Gmail? It works on my Treo 650.

Yes, I heard it on Diggnation. I have to admit I kinda like Kevin (and I like laughing at Alex). Still, TWiT is definitely my favorite podcast.

[stevesnj]

Originally Posted by lavar78

Did you enable POP access within Gmail? It works on my Treo 650.

Yes, I heard it on Diggnation. I have to admit I kinda like Kevin (and I like laughing at Alex). Still, TWiT is definitely my favorite podcast.

Yeah that was it thanks lavar!!

[lavar78]

I aim to please.

"Dave, I don't care about making you jealous. I just care about pleasing your woman." - Bill McNeal, NewsRadio

[legacyb4]

It also appears that it will work with just about any combination of [email protected], not just 'spam'.

So something like: [email protected] would be specific to the macnn forums, for example.

You could potentially use any number of combinations which would allow you to further filter out who's selling/leaking your email address.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by lavar78

I heard a great Gmail trick from Kevin Rose. When you want to sign up for something that may spam you, you can give your Gmail address as myaccount+spam@gmail.com. It will still be delivered, but you can set up a filter (to: +spam) that will automatically move, label, and/or archive the message. In more general terms, you can use addresses like these to automatically sort and filter your mail.

[turtle777]

Originally Posted by ManOfSteal

It's always fun to see who promised not to sell the information to anybody else, yet I catch them because I'll get a SPAM e-mail to my .Mac alias of "newpurchasefrom<insert vendor>@mac.com"...busted!

I have been doing this for years as well.

Got a catch-all email address for my own domain, and I give out [email protected] as email addresses. Works well. Just needs a good spam filter. I'm pretty happy with Spamassassin.

-t

[lavar78]

Originally Posted by legacyb4

It also appears that it will work with just about any combination of [email protected], not just 'spam'.

So something like: [email protected] would be specific to the macnn forums, for example.

You could potentially use any number of combinations which would allow you to further filter out who's selling/leaking your email address.

Cheers.

Read the last line of the original post. I said that.

OK, I guess you said it better.

[Randman]

I have two gmail accounts (one for general internet usage_ and almost never get spam on either one. Same with the mac.com address. I've gotten like 2 spams in the last three months.