Sending to yourname+label@gmail.com labels your email
June 26, 2004
Danyel Fisher pointed out this cool Gmail tip.
Note that you can get around the label issue by forwarding messages to “myname+label”, and then searching for “+label”.
(Gmail allows you unlimited “+” addresses. For example, all my mail that’s forwarded from an external account goes to mygmailname+forward@gmail.com)
Aforementioned “label issue” being the issue with gExodus 0.2’s new label feature which prefixes a user-specified string to the subject of each forwarded email. If I’d known that earlier… Nah it was good practice. It actually forced me to figure out how to modify an existing email’s headers.
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Actually you need to create a filter, eg. when ‘to’ = ‘yourname+somelabel@gmail.com’ apply label ’somelabel’. You have to do this for every label you intend to apply by this method. It’s a very cool feature.
Posted by: Rory Parle on June 26, 2004 1am