# Test onboarding
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 15, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759 "2019-05-15T03:03:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 14
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/1 "2019-05-15T03:03:04Z")
Is there a way for admin to create ‘dummy users’ to test the onboarding process?
I’ve been creating new accounts with multiple email accounts, but it’s messy and time consuming.
Ideas?
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 3:15am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/2 "2019-05-15T03:15:58Z")
Depending on your email provider you may be able to use [sub+addressing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Sub-addressing) to skip the “multiple email accounts” part.
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/3 "2019-05-15T03:18:12Z")
Can you expand upon what you mean there?
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### Author:  [@schleifer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schleifer)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 3:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/4 "2019-05-15T03:25:47Z")
Mail sent to [user+cheese@example.com](mailto:user+cheese@example.com) or [user+orangutan@example.com](mailto:user+orangutan@example.com) will probably both actually deliver to [user@example.com](mailto:user@example.com). You can have as many addresses as you need that all deliver to the same inbox by putting different things between the `+` and the `@`.
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 7:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/5 "2019-05-15T07:29:13Z")
Huh. I’ll test that. Nice 😊
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/6 "2019-05-15T10:16:08Z")
Yeah, it didn’t work 😔
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/7 "2019-05-15T10:33:42Z")
I tried it with an @domain I own, and then with a gmail account - neither successful. Any ideas why @schleifer?
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/8 "2019-05-15T10:34:45Z")
Pretty sure all GMail accounts support + addressing. What email have you tried?
It only works if you own (for example) [julz@gmail.com](mailto:julz@gmail.com) and use something like [julz+test@gmail.com](mailto:julz+test@gmail.com).
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:36am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/9 "2019-05-15T10:36:52Z")
I did [Julia.surname+test@gmail.com](mailto:Julia.surname+test@gmail.com). Could it be the dot? I have heard that I don’t need the dot in my gmail email before.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/10 "2019-05-15T10:38:30Z")
> [@julz](#):
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> I have heard that I don’t need the dot in my gmail email before.
That’s right. GMail automatically removes dots before the @. For example, [julz@gmail.com](mailto:julz@gmail.com) and [j.u.l.z@gmail.com](mailto:j.u.l.z@gmail.com) are the same email address.
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 10:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/11 "2019-05-15T10:39:24Z")
But no joy with the +test component…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/12 "2019-05-15T14:03:31Z")
That’s very strange. I’ve used + addressing with Gmail for years and it’s unlikely they they’d drop it.
Did you check your spam folder?
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### Author:  [@julz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/julz)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/13 "2019-05-16T00:25:12Z")
Oh gawd. There they are. 😳
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### Author:  [@BjornW](https://meta.discourse.org/u/BjornW)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 6:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/test-onboarding/117759/14 "2019-05-16T06:53:50Z")
The same trick can be pulled with the dot-removal thing. Just use `your.email@gmail.com, your..email@gmail.com, your...email@gmail.com`, etc.