Most people know about the . and the + trick with Gmail. Well some sites like Kroger have wised up and will disallow + Gmail addresses. Thus, you’ll want some real unique email addresses. You may be thinking, well I don’t want to check 100 email addresses! Well me either. That’s why you have a ‘catch-all’ email address. So you can have all 100 email addresses all go to one Gmail address. Here’s how to do it.
- Go out to Namecheap and buy a domain, preferably a cheap one – https://www.namecheap.com/. I bought a $.48 domain for 1 year with an all in cost of $.66
- Once you’ve bought the domain, set up your catchall email like shown below
- Wait about 15 minutes and then try to email yourself. So if you bought john.xyz, you can try to email test@john.xyz and see if it appears in your real Gmail address that you configured in step 2.
- If it works, which it should, you can now create as many accounts with whatever site you like.
A couple of watchouts. NOT ALL DOMAINS REDIRECT CORRECTLY. If it doesn’t work, try emailing Namecheap or try to buy a different domain. Secondly, if word of this domain gets out, you could be spammed relentlessly, so I’d only use the emails to create accounts on site. Enjoy. Kudos to @esthery for nudging me to get this up and running.
Just curious….what are you using multiple email addresses for with Kroger?
This is a great trick. I was needing a more professional sounding email address for my home business. I didn’t realize how cheap Domains had become.
When I go to namecheap it says, “…with every domain name purchase, get 2 months’ FREE private email!” If I buy a domain for a year I’d want email for more than 2 months, what am I missing here?
i dont know what that is but you prob dont’ need it. all domains come with free regular email
Thanks! I forgot all about this. I haven’t had my own domain in about 10 years. I have a lot of accounts to update.
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Been doing this for well over a decade with my own domains and G Suite. Also makes it really easy to see who sold your email address or got hacked because if you start getting spam to milesperday@yourdomain for example, you know what happened and can easily filter those out.