One issue with Gmail’s solution is that it’s trivial to bypass - I might enter as my address on a site I don’t care about, but they can easily strip out that “+spam” and bypass any filters I’ve set up. Hotmail has offered the same ‘+’ feature too, but this new alias option is more powerful. It’s not perfect, but it works decently well. For example, you might create and so on - each with a different filter to route the emails to different labels (or deletes them immediately). Hardcore Gmail users are probably familiar with the old ‘+’ trick: if your email is you can use a + symbol to create a variety of aliases that all go to the same place.
In other words, I can now setup a Hotmail inbox that lets me seamlessly handle correspondence to both and from the same inbox - woohoo!*Īliases aren’t anything new for webmail services. Ever wished you could have multiple email addresses that all routed to the same inbox, without having to set up a bunch of different accounts and forwarding options? Hotmail - yes, the email service you probably haven’t looked at in years - has just added a very handy new alias feature that lets you do just this.
