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By Josh Gates March 26, 2017

Gmail Usernames

Many people do not know this but gmail does not recognize dots as characters within a username. This means your email address, somebody@gmail.com for example, is the same as s.o.m.e.b.o.d.y@gmail.com. Yep, go ahead and try it.

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  1. Fredrick Berning says

    July 22, 2011 at 6:49 am

    You can also append a “+” after the username, along with some text, to create multiple alias addresses that go to one mailbox. For instance, “somebody+spam@gmail.com” will deliver to “somebody@gmail.com”. Allows filtering on the mailto address.

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