What can you do with Gmail aliases?

Gmail treats you+anything@gmail.com and any dot-variant of you@gmail.com as your real address. That gives you unlimited identities tied to one inbox.

Avoid spam

Give every site a unique alias. Block the exact ones that leak or get noisy.

Track leaks

If +acme starts getting cold emails, you know Acme sold or lost your data.

Separate categories

Filter newsletters, receipts, and social notifications into clean folders.

Unlimited signups

Need a second account on a service that allows one per email? Use a dot-variant.

A/B testing

Generate identifiable aliases for each campaign or experiment variant.

Growth hacking

Sign up with different aliases to test referral funnels end-to-end.

Referral systems

Verify your own referral pipeline works without juggling multiple inboxes.

Automation testing

QA email-triggered flows with thousands of unique addresses.

How it works

  • Dots are ignored in Gmail addresses. j.ohn@gmail.com = john@gmail.com.
  • Plus-tags let you append anything after a +. john+shop@gmail.com still lands in john@gmail.com.
  • Filter incoming mail by the to: address to auto-sort by alias.