There are a couple workarounds to this limitation:

- Create more users with aliases.  Use either the email routing
feature or Gmail's forwarding feature to forward the mail to the
intended recipient.

http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/answer.py?answer=77182
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10957

- Use + addresses.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12096

-alex

On Nov 26, 2:51 pm, "Ryan Shelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sam,
>
> But at the same time, you have to ask yourself, if there is a limit and a
> user is hitting that limit, is the user using that function as it's designed
> or is your limit unreasonable?  Just because you can technically make
> something unlimited doesn't mean you should.  Quite possibly the limit is
> there not to increase performance or for readability/layout, but to ensure
> that the resource is used properly and not abused.
>
> To use your example, if I'm a professor, and I teach 5 classes per semester,
> and I need a nickname for each class I'm teaching, and you've run out of
> nicknames, then obviously the nicknames that were used for classes I taught
> several semesters ago haven't been removed.  Alternately, maybe a mailing
> list would be a better option.
>
> Just playing devil's advocate, that's all!
>
> -Ryan
>
> On Nov 26, 2007 12:41 AM, Sam Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Ryan,
>
> > While I too am interested in this particular use case, I've lost count of
> > the number of times that I've been affected by arbitrary limits like this
> > and it's impossible to predict what people all the weird and wonderful
> > things people will want to use the tools for. If there's a good reason for
> > such limits (eg limiting the number of users sharing a spreadsheet for
> > performance or the number of recipients of a mail message for spam) then
> > fair enough but I'd also be interested in the rationale behind selecting 30
> > as the limit in this case. One possible use case would be having addresses
> > for course administrators at a school/university - with only a single
> > recipient mailing lists are not necessary (and may also be subject to
> > similar limits) and it's conceivable that one person administers more than
> > 30 courses!
>
> > My point in this rant is simply to think long and hard before implementing
> > arbitrary limits,
>
> > Sam
>
> > On 11/26/07, Ryan Shelley < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > Why does a single person need more than 30 nicknames?
>
> > > On Nov 23, 2007 9:24 PM, alex94040 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > That sucks, and I totally don't understand why that limit is in place.
> > > > Are you worried about abuse? Can you increase that limit to, say,
> > > > 200?
>
> > > > On Oct 5, 1:48 pm, "Austin (Google)" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > Yes, the max number of nickname per user is 30.  You should be
> > > > getting
> > > > > a error code 1501-TooManyNicknamesForUser when you are creating
> > > > beyond
> > > > > 30 nicknames.
>
> > > > > Austin
>
> > > > > On Oct 3, 11:09 pm, alex94040 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> > > > > > I'm trying to add a number of nicknames to a test account we've
> > > > set up
> > > > > > on our domain; i'm getting a "server error" once I try to add
> > > > > > nicknames past 30. Does anyone know why?
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