Creating Multiple Email Addresses For Testing
Many email hosts will let you add a number or text after the email name followed by a “+” and before the “@” sign so you can create multiple unique email addresses for testing.
e.g. one of my email addresses is copernicusxx1@me.com; I can also use copernicusxx1+1@me.com, copernicusxx1+2@me.com, copernicusxx1+test@me.com etc.
I have tested this on 4 different hosts so far and the following allow this:
- google hosted emails (copernicusxx7@gmail.com and stone@buildyourinternetbusiness.com)
- icloud (copernicusxx1@me.com)
- Hotmail/outlook (nickuser@outlook.com)
- I also understand it works on yahoo but I’ve not tested it
The following do not allow this:
- British telecom hosted email accounts
I’m trying to compile a list of hosts that allow this so if you use a different host for your email (e.g. GoDaddy etc) and it works (or doesn’t), can you please send me an email at support@buildyourinternetbusiness, add a comment below or click on the support tab and leave a message?
Many thanks!