Today I stumbled over this cracking blog post from way back in 2008: Wow! All Gmail Users Are Given Two Separate Email Addresses

When you create a Gmail account, you actually get two email addresses – one is the regular @gmail.com while the second email address has @googlemail.com in the domain.

That is cool and, as we always do at WaveAdept, I shared it on Twitter only to get this back from @Geekpulp:

you know if you have x.y@gmail.com xy@gmail.com also works. At least it does for me.

Wow, that’s another 2 free email addresses, and all without using the old ‘+’ trick.

So for my personal Gmail account I now have:

1. miramar.mike@gmail.com – the one I signed up with
2. miramar.mike@googlemail.com
3. miramarmike@gmail.com
4. miramarmike@googlemail.com

And so, does it work with a Google Apps account such as WaveAdept.com? Yes and No.
No, your Google Apps setup won’t do any of it without some simple admin work, darn it.

To get multiple domains (@waveadept.com / @waveadept.co.nz / @waveadepters.com …) your Google Apps administrator can quickly setup domain aliases. Once they have been verified (no, you can’t simply enter @microsoft.com and get their email!) emails for mike.riversdale@waveadepters.com will be automatically piped into the main mike.riversdale@waveadept.com Inbox.
Google Apps help: Domain aliases

Ok, so what about ‘mike.riversdale@’ vs ‘mikeriversdale@’?
Again, an administator can quickly add a “nickname” to the main mail address and you’re done.
Google Apps help: Nicknames

Picture credit: Gina Bianchini, Multiple Personalities

Tags: gmail, google, How To

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