I was hunting around for a way to create email aliases for mailing-lists and whatnot. It is a little disappointing to learn that there is not away to create true aliases with Google’s Gmail. You can create aliases if using Google’s hosted application service but I do not use this for my personal mail. Here are three interesting item’s I came across; Google’s mail servers ignore period’s for the username context, googlemail.com may be used instead of gmail.com and finally you can append notes after a plus symbol.

firstname.lastname@gmail.com may be written as first.name.last.name@gmail.com

firstname.lastname@gmail.com may be written as firstname.lastname@googlemail.com

firstname.lastname@gmail.com may be written as firstname.lastname+sometext@gmail.com

It’s not really obfuscation but it may help confuse someone not the wiser. Maybe one day Gmail will allow for true alias creation.