When I first began my career as a graphic designer at a large advertising agency, I made a point to hide the email address of every client from the public. I’ve since come to the point where I simply hide the email address of my clients from the public, and that means I have an email address that is no longer visible to the public.
As a graphic designer, I was responsible for ensuring that all emails were sent from my clients’ email addresses, and I used a program called Spamassassin to do so. With Spamassassin, you make a list of email addresses youre actually using, and then you check to make sure that the email address is still on that list. This is especially important to do if you ever want your client to send you an email.
Gmail has been testing a new feature that will make it so that the user can only see and reply to emails that are sent to their new email address. Before, you could only reply to emails that were sent to your old email address. We all should be happy to know that this is the end of an era of hiding emails.
The email address that you can hide is actually the email address that you create when you register. That is, the email address that you use to register with the Gmail service. However, this email address can still be found on a list of email addresses that are available to the public. This list is called the “Inbox” and it lists all the emails you have received. This list can be accessed by going to “Inbox” in the web interface.
All of this is great, but remember that Gmail doesn’t require email addresses to be encrypted. If you’re currently using an unencrypted email address, you can still use an encrypted email address to send emails. And I mean encrypted. Gmail doesn’t even require an encryption key to be sent a message.
Gmail is currently the most popular email service by far, and with that comes the potential for sending encrypted email. This is why you should always think twice about encrypting your email address. With the Inbox you can still send messages to unencrypted email addresses, and you can even send messages to a Gmail address that is not the one you are currently using to send emails.
The easiest way to hide your email address from your current and potential employers and clients is to use a Google Apps domain. Gmail has a few options for creating email accounts with your Gmail email address. One of my favorite options is called “Google Apps for Work” (or GAFW, which stands for “Google Apps for Work”) and it lets you set up various things like sending emails from your personal email address to people on GAFW.
If you want to hide your email address for GAFW, you can use your email address to send emails to people who don’t have one on the GAFW domain. On the other hand, if you want to hide your email address from GAFW, you can use your email address to send emails in your regular email account to people who do have one.
The process isn’t that complicated. You just have to make sure to change your From: field to the actual work email address, and then change it to a junk email address. If you want to do this from your GAFW account, just use the ’email addresses of GAFW users’ in the From: field.
I had one particular GAFW email I wanted to hide. I sent a mail to my boss telling him I had a meeting for the next week, but I also gave him my GAFW email address and my work address. The mail I sent to my boss contained the text “Sorry, I am not coming to your meeting today.” It was exactly what I wanted to send.
