Gmail – Adding a New Tab in Gmail

There is no elegant solution but here is one that should do what you want:

1. Using your Google Apps account, create a secondary user: garbagecollection@mydomain.com
2. Set the catch-all (in Control Panel for domain, email settings) to go to garbagecollection@mydomain.com
3. Write a Google Apps Script which scans the inbox periodically (every 5 min?, daily?)
4. The script would:
   1. Automatically add new addresses to a control spreadsheet
   2. create a label for each new address in your main email account
   3. forward each email to your main account (if not black listed in spreadsheet)
   4. apply the label in your main account

It would work as follows:

You create registration specific email addresses such as firstname.lastname.amazon@mydomain.com because the garbagecollection@mydomain.com is a catch-all, it will accept any email. The script records all new addresses it in the spreadsheet. When you want to stop receiving email, you flag it in the spreadsheet and the script deletes the email rather than forwarding it.

A listing of other users expressing (various degrees of) outrage over the same topic can be found here. As before, the accepted solution doesn't work.

However, one person found a temporary solution using Adblock Plus (here, first message on Jun 26 (of 2013, I assume)):

It's not a problem to do this at all: go to ABP filter preferences, then select "Custom Filters" tab, then "Element Hiding Rules", then click "Add Filter". Now add following eight filters:

mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Social"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Promotions"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Updates"]
mail.google.com##.J-N[title="Forums"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Social"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Promotions"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Updates"]
mail.google.com##.J-LC[title="Forums"]

This seems to work for me. It's really regrettable, since the data is still there, the problem is still there, and this is really just a workaround that may break if Google changes the website's underlying code.

Still, in light of the fact that the "correct" solution to the problem doesn't seem to fix anything, there's not much else I can do. This temporary solution is permanent for me, unless Google can fix the underlying problem.