The features listed below are known by many of you. But still most of GMail users do not know about these features.

> Two GMail addresses

Every GMail user get email address like digisteps@gmail.com a regular one. To your surprise you automatically get the second email address as digisteps@googlemail.com.

Here all emails that are sent to digisteps@googlemail.com will also be delivered to digisteps@gmail.com . You can use both the addresses. Use @gmail.com for public and keep @googlemail.com for personal so that you can manage your personal emails effectively.

> GMail Plus Addressing

GMail plus addressing is a very useful trick to keep away your GMail mailbox from spam. If you get spammed, you can easily know which website or service leaked your email address to spammers.

I have GMail address digisteps@gmail.com. If I append Plus sign to email username,  GMail will ignore anything written between the + and @ sign.

Any email messages sent to digisteps+blog@gmail.com or digisteps+codes@gmail.com will reach digisteps@gmail.com inbox. But technically they are two different emails.

Gmail does not recognize characters after the PLUS symbol but the gmail search filter can distinguish between the different address and you can therefore redirect these email to separate gmail folders or apply different labels.

> Dots or Periods in GMail Username

GMail cannot recognize dots or periods in user names or email addresses. So digisteps@gmail.com is same as digi.steps@gmail.com or digi.ste.ps@gmail.com

By using above tricks you can make your GMail inbox spam proof and also easily  manage emails from different sources or persons.