Wow! All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses automatically

All Gmail users are provided with two distinct e-mail addresses when they join. If you have example@gmail.com as an e-mail address, then Google also provides you with example@googlemail.com.

This feature apparently has been there for a long time in Gmail, for some reason Google didn’t announce this. But tech bloggers were able to dig this detail out.

With Gmail, you can create multiple e-mail addresses (or aliases) with the same account and you can do this with the following three ways.

1. With a plus sign: Once you log on to G-mail, go to Settings --> Accounts --> Add another e-mail address --> then enter "example+example1@gmail.com" or “example+example2@gmail.com", so on.

2. By adding a dot sign: I have explained this procedure here. Gmail’s program code is set in a way it doesn’t recognize dots or periods in e-mail address. So you can add dots in between the e-mail address as follows: exa.mple@gmail.com or e.xample@gmail.com and so on by going to Settings --> Accounts --> Add another e-mail address --> then enter e.xample@gmail.com or ex.ample@gmail.com, so on.

3. Two e-mails in One: No setup necessary for this third method, when you register your account example@gmail.com, Google automatically registers an additional e-mail account as example@googlemail.com. Both addresses will receive the e-mails at the same account. To separate them you have to use filters. For example, you can pass one of the e-mail addresses to your close friends and filter them to a separate folder, and can give the other e-mail addresses for shopping or websites.

Thus you can create literally 100s of e-mail addresses from one Gmail account. Neither Yahoo nor Microsoft can match this feature.