SpamTracker Email Address Generator for Gmail

By Pascal Van Hecke Last update Oct 9, 2007 — Installed 500 times. Daily Installs: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0
Script Summary:
A script to insert an email address like 'youraccount+currentdomain@gmail.com' so that you can easily filter your Gmail, track who's sending you spam, block senders if necessary. Press "F9" if you're in a text box to insert the email address.

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Gmail has the property that youraccount+whatever@gmail.com ends up at youraccount@gmail.com (the plus is really a "+")
There is also a version of the script that works if you have your own domain and a catchall email setup(generating mail addresses of the form somedomain.com@yourdomain.com), search for "SpamTracker Email Address Generator for your domain"

Modified from the SpamTracker Email Address by Bill Richardson, which was based on the Mailinator script by Todd James. Thanks Bill and Todd!
Note: Both those scripts used F9 as the hotkey, and I did not change this. If you would like to change the hotkey, change the script and change the character code in the keyHandler function from 120 to whichever key code you'd like to use.

When used for the first time, this updated script prompts you for your Gmail account name (NOT your password ;-) !).
Uninstall and reinstall to switch to another accunt.
If you're on a www. url, the www. is omitted in the generated email address.

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