CLICK HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF FREE BLOGGER TEMPLATES »
"There are some things which words cant express,for everything else there is hisam onomics"

Monday, November 05, 2007

How to filter ur girlfriend mails??


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 .......... ;)

1 comments:

Prashob M.P said...

great idea bola