Best way to make valid test emails

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I'm working on a Firebase application, is it possible to to create a bunch of test emails in order to test user creation, login, data separation, etc ?

I'd be open to a low cost Email As a service solution, but I need to be able to view all received emails in the same UI

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Just add +[bar] to any gmail address, as in 'foo+[bar]@gmail.com'. Your registration system will treat it as unique, but gmail will route it to one email inbox for foo@gmail.com

Gmail also ignores periods in the address. foo@gmail com, f.oo@gmail.com and fo.o@gmail.com are all the same address.

Thanks, this is enough for what I need to do right now.

Looks like Gmail doesn't like the [bar] solution though

It should work. You're not including the brackets, are you?

I use it a lot for signing up for mailing lists actually so you can tell if a company has shared your email. If my address was example@example.com, I might sign up with example+zappos@example.com. It's always worked for me.

I totally was using the brackets. Thank you!

You've totally saved me tons of time and effort

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