How to Use the Infinite Number of Email Addresses Gmail Gives You

One trick you may or may not have picked up about
Gmail is that you can add in periods anywhere in
the front part of your address and it makes no
difference whatsoever: john.smith@gmail.com
works just the same as johnsmith@gmail.com.
What's more, you can add a plus sign and any word
before the @ sign (e.g. johnsmith+hello@gmail.com)
and messages will still reach you. If these tweaks
make no difference, then why use them? One major
reason: filters.

Here are a few ways you can make use of the feature to bring order to the chaos of your inbox.

Signing up for newsletters

The next time you sign up for a newsletter, app or
website, use an address like johnsmith+news@gmail.com. That way, you can filter out
everything sent to this address to a low-priority label or folder. A couple of options available to you are to have Gmail mark all these messages as unimportant, or categorize them all as Updates.

If you want to get really involved with your email management then you could even add a specific word for everything you sign up for: johnsmith+evernote@gmail.com for example. This might eventually become more trouble than it's worth, but it does give you the power to instantly send emails from a certain source to the spam folder, or to trash them immediately.

Giving friends VIP status

As well as marking some messages as unimportant, you can of course do the opposite.
Try handing out an alternative email address—such as john.smith@gmail.com—to your nearest and dearest to help them stand out from the dross that usually fills up your inbox.

Then set up a filter to mark these messages as important and top priority.

There's the mobile aspect to consider too. Through the settings in the Gmail app for Android it's possible to set notifications on a label-by-label basis, so if you set up a new label for your VIP contacts then you can make sure only these specific messages trigger an alert on your phone.

Dividing work life and personal life You may already have a separate Google account for
your job, but if you're someone who combines work and pleasure into one central inbox then use the address tricks to distinguish between the two. It could be as simple as adding "+w" to your Gmail address for any work-related emails.

That then gives you the ability to mark every incoming work email with an appropriate label, with no manual effort required—not only will your inbox look tidier, but it will make searches much more efficient. You can restrict queries to one particular label and leave yourself with fewer
results to sift through.

Controlling your home

We don't like to go more than a few days on Field Guide without mentioning something you can do
with IFTTT, so here you go. Set up a johnsmith+lights@gmail.com address as a "Send mail as" alias in the Gmail settings and you can set up an IFTTT trigger that activates whenever an email appears from this address.

Select this alias when composing a message from the office or your mobile phone and you utilize any of IFTTT's features. You'll essentially be sending emails
to yourself, but you could switch Hue lights on or off, turn up your Nest thermostat, and so on. You could also use the trick to send photos to Flickr, update Twitter, send a text from your Android phone, and so on and so on.

Creating a to do list
If you set up a filter that labels every email coming
in to johnsmith+todo@gmail.com then you can pull up this label as a makeshift to do list. As well as
emailing tasks when you're sat in the office or on your phone, you can forward emails from other
accounts or even send photos to the list from wherever you happen to be.

Anything that can be emailed can be added to your to do list, and as usual there's the option within the filter to automatically archive these messages and
mark them as read so they don't clutter up your inbox.

Those are our ideas for using your Gmail aliases, but if you have some tricks and tips of your own we'd love to hear about them.

How to trace an Email Sender in Gmail

Hi friends, today i am going to teach you how to trace an email received in Gmail. Using this hack you can trace the source from which you have received the email.

Hackers do a lot of stuff to hack into your email account so you should always be aware of such things like how to check the authenticity of the email that it has arrived from genuine user or its a fake email. There are two ways to check the authenticity of the email address:

1. Open the Email and Click on Show details.
2. For more deeper look Click on the triangle and then select show original.

Great, but i know 99% of you guys already know these but never tried to trace or somebody have tried but never got success. What is the reason behind that? Yup i know the reason.. All previous tricks to trace an email in Gmail are incomplete so you never received success in doing that. As i always focus on manual things as tools are for noobs and script kiddes. So guys lets learn how to trace email address manually.

How to Trace Email received in Gmail:

1. Basic Method(if sent through some website) 

 

This method is applicable for tracing the email that is sent through the anonymous email or email forging websites.

What is the main motive behind the fake emails, Have you guys ever tried to understand. If no, then here is three four basic things why Fake emails or anonymous emails are sent.

1. For Phishing purposes: Fake page links that are used to hack your email account.
2. For Spreading Bot-nets: Fake emails with attachments(.php,.jpg,.bmp etc) contains bots means self spreading Trojans that steals your email contacts and email that to hackers.
3. For Stealing your personal information or to cheat you.(mails like you won 10000000$ please send us your details to claim).
4. For promoting or viral a product. Most sellers use this trick to promote their companies products online on the name of email marketing but thats all fake they are in need of customers who can buy them and some already has bots attached in them to the mail has been automatically sent to all emails that are in your friend list.

Steps to trace Email received in Gmail (very basic method):

1. Login into your Gmail account.
2. Open the email whose sender details you want to see.
3. Click on Show details.



4 That's all it will show you all basic information about the email. Below snapshot will explain you better.  

2. Advanced Method:

The above trick hardly helps you to trace the email address. Now let's discuss advanced way to trace email.

1. Go to the email and open it.
2. Now click on the triangle at top right end corner of the email screen as shown below and select show original email.



3. Now you will see something like this:

Now See the second received: from SecretMythPC [71.142.245.186] . Its the source IP address ( IP address of system) from which email has been sent.

Now open Any IP address tracing website: Example i opened

http://whatismyipaddress.com/

Now Trace the IP address 71.142.245.186 to get his details and location of the sender. You will see something like this in the output: