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I wish I could do something as sophisticated as this with GSuite.

I did manage to get something similar in spirit but waaay simpler using GSuite filtering+routing and regexes.

But you can, sort of. If your GSuite mail is user@domain.com, you could use user+facebook@domain.com. Then you can create what ever filtering you want to GSuite.

The problem I have, is to remember what I used for each service :/ . So I really liked the idea of `whichmail`.

A lot of services won't accept an email with a plus sign as a valid email address. Part of the issue is how many companies want an email address to sign up for something. It is much easier to track your accounts using a password management application, as opposed to giving everyone your email address and phone number.

I have even seen emails rejected when using a simple dash, or because it was not hosted by a well-known mail service provider, and even because "your email should be of the form <name>.<surname>@<website>" (yes, with a dot, ironically).

At that point I gave up, and I use a single Gmail account for all the services that I don't use very frequently (also because it's not always easy to send mail from self-hosted mailservers, some destinations simply refuse any mail that is not from Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail).

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