One Gmail Account = Multiple Test Email Addresses

Don’t know about you but a lot of what I do requires having access to multiple email addresses (testing websites that require signup etc). To aide my development I have a few email accounts I use – a Gmail, a Hotmail, a Yahoo and a Google Apps one (my main account). That’s only four addresses though, which can be quite limiting at times.
In steps Gmail. If you have a Gmail account then you have access to “infinite” email addresses using that one account.
The Gmail account I use for general testing is:

[email protected] (I left a t off on purpose)

But I could also use any of the following:

myname[email protected]

myname[email protected]

myname[email protected]

myname[email protected], etc etc,.

You get the idea. You can tack a + sign and then any random string after it to invent a new email address. Obviously it still delivers to your Gmail account and it lets you signup to a website over and over as a “different” user.

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