Create task-specific email addresses

Created by Johnny Campbell, Modified on Thu, 14 Jul, 2022 at 5:04 PM by Johnny Campbell

If you don’t want to create multiple accounts or aliases for specific tasks, just add a plus sign (+) and any word before the @ sign in your current address.

Messages will still reach you, and you’ll have an infinite amount of emails for different purposes.

Examples

If your Google Workspace email address is cassy@solarmora.com, you can:

Sign up for newsletters with cassy+news@solarmora.com.
Let prospective clients or customers contact cassy+questions@solarmora.com.
Allow team members to surface urgent issues in your inbox by contacting cassy+urgent@solarmora.com.

You can even combine these addresses with filters to automatically label and sort your messages.

For instance, filters can automatically archive and apply the News label to all incoming newsletters sent to cassy+news@solarmora.com. When you're ready to read them, click News in your list of labels to find them.

Use your task-specific email addresses

Just add a plus sign (+) and any word before the @ sign in your address.

For example, if your email address is cassy@solarmora.com, use cassy+news@solarmora.com or cassy+urgent@solarmora.com.

Automatically label and sort incoming messages using one of these addresses

Open Gmail.
In the search box at the top, click Show search options .
Under To, enter your task-specific email address, such as cassy+news@solarmora.com.
Click Create filter.
Choose what you want Gmail to do to these messages, such as archive, apply labels, and marking as important.
Click Create filter.