Filter Ur Gf’s mails….8-)

If you hate seeing those mails( when i say mails these days, it obviously means gmails) 4m ur gf rite inside ur inbox wit her name and d subject line attracting one’s attention, well here is a way out to filter those mails into a label. Now start learning how to…

Let’s say that your email address is ‘bolan@gmail.com’, basically everything sent to any of the following email addresses will be forwarded to your primary email.
* bolan@gmail.com * b.olan@gmail.com
* bo.lan@gmail.com * bol.an@gmail.com
* bolan@googlemail.com * b.olan@googlemail.com
* bo.lan@googlemail.com
…
…
* bola.n@googlemail.com

And that’s not all, you can place as many dots as you want, it can be even something like ‘b.o.l.a.n@gmail.com’ and you’ll still get it on ‘bolan@gmail.com’

Additionally, I just also found out that you can embed random text to your email ID using ‘+’ sign. That is to say ‘bolan+logabolan@gmail.com’ can be used as your email address, as well.

Ok I got it. Now what ?

Now what u can do is use the above naming covention 2 ur advantage ( mayb ur gf’s as well)….
What u can do for instance is ask ur gf to mail u to the id- “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” which will be forwarded to bolan@gmail.com (assuming u’ve understood the above naming convention for gmail).
Step 2 is “create a filter” (this link is availabe on the right side of search mail box inside ur gmail inbox), upon clicking u will have From:,To:,Subject:,Has the words:,Doesn’t have:. now in our case we will hv to enter the email id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com”(which is the email id u askd ur gf 2 mail to, Bola!!) in the to field. Click next step and check the first option “skip the inbox”, then……… check the “apply label” nd choose a label if 1 already exist or else create a new 1(bolanteboli is my name for ur label ;)).

Now what this does is all those mails sent to d id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” skips the inbox and is forwarded to d label “bolanteboli”.

Now u may ask y such hassles when u can directly filter mails coming 4m a particular id say bolathi@gmail.com.
Good question bola!!

Here is a better answer, what if u hv more than 1 girlfriend( which is not at all alien these days)?? u will have to create more than 1 filter, i.e 1 each filter for each gf’s mail id (like 1 for bolathi@gmail.com,bolathi2@gmail.com,bolathi3@gmail.com……. bolathi19@gmail.com). well that depends on how many gfs u ultimately have.

So thats y i say the “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” is the better hack( esecially if u hv multiple gfs). You can give the id “bolan+bolathi@gmail.com” to all ur gfs nd all those “junk” mails will b accumulated in d label bolanteboli.
Hope theres no confusion ;)………

This hack can be used to 1’s advantage not only in d case of gfs but also in many other extra usefull cases. like if u r registering at a site nd u dont want their confirmation mails to appear inside ur inbox u can provide the site with a “+” id, say “bolan+site@gmail.com” nd create a filter for that.

Bottomline: Now please dont assume that i personally use this hack ……….