[TriLUG] OT: Personal Email Vendor Selection

Eric H. Christensen eric at christensenplace.us
Wed Sep 21 10:25:09 EDT 2011


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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 03:41:50PM -0400, Igor Partola wrote:
> You lose an important feature: ipartola+anything at gmail.com still goes to me.
> This way I could theoretically set up ipartola+trilug at gmail.com, and then
> create custom filters based on the +trilug part. In fact I hear a lot of
> people use that trick with various spam-prone services (think
> ipartola+thegap at gmail.com, ipartola+outbacksteakhouse at gmail.com, etc). You
> can't do this with just the Google Apps for Domains account (AFAIK at
> least). You can have a catchall address, though, so you could simulate it.

You can still create rules to add labels to your incoming mail.  Many of the rules I have setup are for lists and gmail will actually read the mail headers to make it easier to filter on tags in the header.

- --Eric
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