gmail username syntax method for spam prevention

Question

hi all,

i'm very aware that this is probably not a stackoverflow question, but i figure someone here might know the answer...

a few months back i was sent an image detailing a neat method for spam prevention using a little known feature of gmail..

basically you can use a specific syntax in your email address when you give it out to include some kind of identifier within the email address so you can later distinguish which version of your email address was distributed/crawled to create spam and then, if you want, create filters based on this identifier.

something along the lines of username|[email protected] which will still beforewarded to [email protected] except | is not the correct token and i can't find the doco where i found this information or remember what the correct special character is.

so if anyone knows about the feature i'm describing, i'd love to find out how to get it to work!

thanks, and sorry for the non-programming question.

p.

Answer 1

Use a + sign instead of the |