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Why does it feel like I am the only one using plus sign (+) feature supported by SMTP standards? http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/index.html http://www
by kchr 9y ago
Why does it feel like I am the only one using plus sign (+) feature supported by SMTP standards?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/index.html http://www.faqs.org/faqs/mail/addressing/index.html
TL;DR - Most SMTP servers support delivering mail to addresses like foo+bar@email.com, in which case it will be received by foo@email.com. You can specify whatever string of alphanum chars you'd like after the plus sign.
- mboehm 9y agoNormally I only read on HN, but you got me logging in, upvoting and commenting! Probably most people just don't know about the standard. (As it is probably with most standards). Anyways, thanks for your hint.
- ghusbands 9y agoI've hit enough sites that refuse to accept a + in email addresses that I gave up using it, on the basis that I couldn't remember whether or not I was using it, per site. Standard it may be, but so many sites have bad email address validation.
- bdav24 9y agoHi kchr, no you're not the only one to use the plus sign. As already discussed in this feed, the + part can easily be removed by spammers.
- roryisok 9y ago+1 Sorry, couldn't resist. I got burned by this, I used it to sign up to a newsletter, and when I tried to unsubscribe, I kept putting in my actual email address with no results. Took me two weeks to think of checking the "to" field and realising I'd used a plus address