Can you have two email addresses on one google account

Q: Can I have 2 email addresses on Gmail?

Can I Have Multiple Gmail Accounts? The short answer is, Yes, you can have multiple Gmail accounts. Many professionals have both a personal Gmail account and a work Gmail account tethered to their CRM.

Gmail Plus Address is a very useful trick to save your mailbox from spam. And if you ever get spammed, you know exactly which website / online service leaked your email address to spammers.

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Gmail Plus Address
Gmail Dot Blindness
Gmail Address Alias
How to create multiple inboxes
How do I add a second email address to my Google account?
Can I have 2 email addresses on Gmail?
How do I set up multiple email addresses in Gmail?

Gmail Plus Address

So what is a Gmail Plus address? Say you have an email address like . If you append a “plus” sign to your email username, Gmail will ignore anything written between the + and @ sign in the email address and still deliver the message to the same mailbox.

So any email address sent to billgates+ or billgates+ or billgates+ will still reach the Gmail inbox of inbox though, technically, they are three different email aliases.

Thus, when you share your email with some non familiar service, like a newsletter, you can supply your existing email with a plus sign - like billgates+. If you ever receive spam addressed to that email alias, you know the exact source that’s sending the spam and can easily block all emails using a GMail filter.

Gmail Dot Blindness

Gmail is blind to dots (or periods) in your email address. You can place any number of dots in your email username and they’ll still land in your inbox.

Going back to the previous address, , and are seen as the same email address by Gmail but other services may see them as separate email address.

You can use this technique to register multiple email accounts in online services that require unique email address per account. For instance, if you ever need to create multiple accounts on Twitter, the Gmail Dot trick is the way to got.

Gmail Address Alias

There’s one more Gmail address trick that may come handy.

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses - one is the regular @gmail.com address while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

That means if your email address in Gmail is something like , all email messages that are sent to will also be delivered to your own Gmail account. That’s two for the price of one.

Like the Gmail plus trick, you can take advantage of these two domains so that less spam reaches your Gmail mailbox. For instance, give the @googlemail.com address to your close contacts (put that in the visiting card) while keep the @gmail.com address for public (put it on your blog). Then set a Gmail filter such that all email messages with @googlemail.com in the header go a special folder so you will never miss important email from close friends.

And if you multiple Twitter accounts, associate one with your main @gmail.com address and the other with your new @googlemail.com address.

Important: You can only set up multiple inboxes with a computer.

How to create multiple inboxes

On your computer, go to Gmail.
At the top right, click Settings
.
Next to "Inbox type," select Multiple inboxes.
To change multiple inbox settings, click Customize.
Enter the search criteria you want to add for each section.
- To search for starred emails, use: is:starred
- When you search a person’s email address, the results in that section will also show emails from their alias. To limit the search to only the original email, the search should be enclosed in double quotes. Example: "from:".
- When you search “from:email", the results will also return Drive sharing notification emails from when that person shared a file with you.
Under "Section name," enter a name for the section.
Next to "Maximum page size," enter the number of emails you want to view in the section.
Next to "Multiple Inbox position," choose where you want to place the sections.
At the bottom, click Save Changes.

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Can I have 2 email addresses on Gmail?

Can I Have Multiple Gmail Accounts? The short answer is, "Yes, you can have multiple Gmail accounts." Many professionals have both a personal Gmail account and a work Gmail account tethered to their CRM.