There are many times when the sending email address used by a financial institution changes and therefore you have to update your filter. Since your customized Gmail address will never change, you never will need to worry about updating the filter. This is much easier than creating a separate filter for each financial institution. Now I can create a filter and have all emails related to my financial activities automatically moved to an appropriate label. Simply place a “ +” after your account name and add a word or words to uniquely identify that email address.įor example, I can change my email address to when signing up at any bank, credit union, investment site, etc. This Gmail hack has been around for a LONG time and most people already know about it.
This trick usually works the best when signing up on forums or anywhere online because most forms will accept periods as an allowable symbol of a typical email address. So for example, I could write out my email address as of the normal can add as many dots as you like in any location and the email will still come to you.
If you didn’t already know, Gmail does not consider any extra dots in your account name when processing email.
