Setting up multiple email addresses in order to create user accounts for testing is a pain. You have to manage not only the username and password for each account but also for the relevant email. Fortunately Gmail has a handy trick that allows you to append a plus (“+”) and a string to your current email to create an on the fly alias. For example:
jsnipes+testuser@reltio.com will send an email to the same address as jsnipes@reltio.com
Considerations
- Choose a username without a “+” if possible. If you need to use this account with postman it will make it so that you do not have to replace the “+” with the encoding “%2B”
- For security, be sure to give all your test users unique and secure passwords. I recommend a password manager like Bitwarden for generating passwords and keeping them organized
- The plus trick works for Outlook users with some tinkering in powershell. If that isn’t an option aliases can be created ahead of time
- Be sure to clean up your test users after you are done just in case!
