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💡 Use email aliases to test your opt-ins

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Chances are you've signed up to your own form or landing page before, just as a test. This is a great way to verify exactly what a new subscriber will experience when they sign up to your list. However, you only have so many email addresses to use for testing. That's where email aliases can help.

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Email aliases are a simple and convenient way to "pretend" that you're using a new email address, while still receiving the emails to the same inbox. All you have to do is add a + sign and then some text at the end of the first part of your email.

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For example, if your email address is yourname@gmail.com, then while testing you can use:

• yourname+1@gmail.com
• yourname+formtest@gmail.com
• yourname+iamacreator@gmail.com

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NOTE: Many major email providers (including Gmail and G Suite addresses) support email aliases but not all of them. Be sure to double-check whether this is supported by your email provider before using this trick.

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