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It's often called plus addressing. Quite a common feature in mail servers and mail services. MyName+<any-random-text> at gmail.com ends up in MyName's mailbox.
by whateverdudes 10y ago
It's often called plus addressing. Quite a common feature in mail servers and mail services. MyName+<any-random-text> at gmail.com ends up in MyName's mailbox.
- apetresc 10y agoDoesn't that defeat the purpose? Surely anyone savvy enough to be dealing in black-market e-mail address lists is savvy enough to just remove everything after the + sign?
- dastbe 10y agoYou never use the bare address. If it gets stripped then it gets binned.
- paulgb 10y agoWhat do 'bare address', 'stripped', and 'binned' mean in this context?
- mod 10y agoI don't agree with him, but he means you never use the email address without a "+service" in it. Then, if the spammer strips (removes) that part, it gets sent to the trash (binned).
- gruez 10y agoWorks well until you encounter a service that thinks you can't have pluses in emails
- whateverdudes 10y agoProbably yes. The software I'm using supports configuring the character per domain, so I can use say . instead of +, so I could use myname.service@example.com which I assume would solve that.