Gmail: Use Multiple Addresses & Google’s New Address System

Google’s mail platform GMail has a loyal user base of several billion users, many of whom have had their email address for many years. If the email address you chose at the time is no longer sufficient, you can now adapt it using a number of tricks or, to a limited extent, create a completely new address. Here you will find a quick overview of the options.

Anyone who created an email address with GMail many years ago and is either no longer satisfied with it or can no longer get by for other reasons can help themselves with a few simple tips. GMail is very flexible with addresses and offers users countless variations, all of which arrive in the same inbox without any problems. Here you only get a quick overview; you can find the detailed instructions in the linked article.

Points, Plus and googlemail
You can insert periods anywhere in the name of your email address (i.e. everything before “@gmail.com”). These give you new addresses for many services, but are ignored by GMail itself. This is how you can do it [email protected] also problem-free [email protected] or even [email protected] make. For many services these are different addresses, but with GMail they end up in the same mailbox.

You can also add a “+” followed by any character string at the end of your name. You can use this plus for filtering, for example to find out where the email address information comes from. For example [email protected]. If you want it to be completely inconspicuous, you can always use the alias “googlemail.com”. So [email protected]. This will also arrive in your inbox. You can find all the details about these tricks in the detailed article below:

» GMail: This is how the dot trick works for countless email addresses.

Create a new email address
If these adjustments are not enough for you and you want to have a completely different email address, this is now also possible. For a few weeks now, GMail has offered the option of changing your own email address while keeping your old address. Effectively, you then have two completely different addresses, both of which end up in the same inbox.

To change the address, you just have to go through a few detailed steps in this GMail Support article are described. Because GMail is not only the email address for many users, but also the Google login, you should read through everything at least twice and decide. Think carefully beforehand, because a change is only possible once every 12 months and only three times in total. Once this quota is exhausted, you no longer have any options.

» All information about changing your GMail address

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The tricks explained here are particularly relevant due to the close connection between GMail and the Google account, because a completely new start with a new address is often not possible without a lot of effort. Maybe it will help one or the other.

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